[HPforGrownups] CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chamber of Secrets Chapter 18: Dobby's reward

[No Limberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 189285

>No Limberger wrote:
> After reading HBP, I didn't want to believe that Harry contained a
horcrux,
> which turned out to be the case. Each of the books leading up to DH
> were moving in that direction, beginning with SS/PS in which Harry started
> to experience pain in his scar anytime that LV was near. Then, he learns
> that he is connected to LV in CoS when Harry learns that LV put a part
> of himself into Harry the night LV killed Harry's parents and tried to
kill
> Harry.

>Bart wrote:
>I was very much against the idea of Harry being a horcrux, too,
>although I believed he was something akin to one. Still am. It just
>appeared that the process of creating a horcrux was too complex for one
>to be created by accident. My feeling was that a piece of Morty's soul
>did move into Harry, but remained separate; this was part of the reason
>why the soul piece could be removed from Harry without his own destruction.

No.Limberger responds:
When I think about what occurred the night that Harry's parents were
killed by LV, there were a number of unusual circumstances. First, LV
had already created 6 horcruxes before attacking the Potters, which was an
effort to kill Harry. This suggests the possibility that his soul was
probably
already rather weakened and potentially rather susceptible to accidental
splitting. Next, Harry's mother had imbued Harry with the ancient magic of
her love. This was not something that LV had anticipated. How that ancient
magic works is not fully understood, but was clearly designed to protect
Harry
at all costs. Next, to create a horcrux, someone had to die. Before
attempting
to kill Harry, LV had killed both Lily & James Potter, so the process of
creating a horcrux was primed.

Lastly, consider the fact that every other horcrux that LV had created was
an
inanimate object to store a piece of his soul. Harry was a living, sentient
being.
We know that when Harry, Hermione & Ron were using the polyjuice potion, it
was only intended to be used for human transformation, not animal. The
result
of unintentionally using it for an animal transformation caused the spell to
act
differently and Hermione had to spend some time in the infirmary to recover.
We
can speculate that the spell to create a horcrux was probably only intended
to
be used with an inanimate object. Thus, when LV tried to kill Harry, it was
probably Lily's ancient magic combining with the fact that LV's soul was
already
weakened and primed for splitting that allowed the unintentional horcrux
creation
to occur. LV never knew that Harry was a horcrux, and Harry didn't have to
be
completely destroyed in order for the horcrux to be removed. This was an
unexpected consequence.

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