Snape and Lucius was James and Intent And Snape

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 187110

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47" <montavilla47 at ...> wrote:

> Which brings up an interesting question.  If Harry was a Horcrux and
> Horcruxes are extremely dark magical objects--why didn't Harry set
> off dark detectors in HBP?  


zanooda:

That's probably because an object becomes a Horcrux (a Dark object) only after some dark magic is used on it. There is a dark spell which creates a Horcrux. In Harry's case there was no dark spell, no incantation at all. There was nothing for the dark detectors to detect, IMO. Just a guess :-).