Horcruxes, hosting a soul piece

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 189341



> No.Limberger responds:
> I completely agree in that my idea is highly speculative. I had
> forgotten about Nagini being a horcrux, so my initial concept that
> a horcrux was intended to be an inanimate object wasn't correct.

Mike:
Oh, I think your initial concept was dead-on right! In fact, Dumbledore even agrees with you on this point. He said using Nagini wasn't a good idea. 


> No.Limberger continued:
> However, what is clear is that using an inanimate object would
> likely be far more stable given both its longevity and lack of a
> living soul/mind itself.

Mike:
Spot on again. The whole point of creating a Horcrux is to become immortal, so you want the vessel that is now your Horcrux to also endure infinitely. A living being as a Horcrux is going to eventually die. And we've been shown that the death of a living Horcrux is equivalent to distroying an inanimate Horcrux. I don't know how long magical snakes live, but I doubt that they are immortal.

As to Harry, I don't think you can call him a true Horcrux. I believe the split off soul piece has to be forced into the containment object and captured there by the Horcrux spell, or it will just float away to wherever soul pieces float away to. LV's soul, being just split again after killing Lily and James, was set free of his body when he was killed by the rebounding AK. So nothing was keeping that split off piece connected to the rest of LV's soul.

Why it went to live in Harry was never really explained, maybe souls naturally seek a living thing to habitate? Maybe a piece of soul is so corrupted that it doesn't know to return to the soul bank to await redeployment? 

In any case, it appears that the soul piece in Harry adopted Harry as it's owner and rejected the mothership soul in LV. It gave Harry the ability to speak Parceltongue, and reacted with pain whenever it got near the other soul piece in LV. Like splitting a magnet, this soul immediately repolarized and was repelled from the same soul that it was once attached to. But it still kept the magnetic qualities, ahh, I mean it kept the same soul-based qualities as the original version.


> No.Limberger:
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> The diary never recognized that Harry was, himself, a horcrux.

Mike:
Interesting, this. Neither the diary nor the locket seemed to recognize the sibling soul piece within Harry. Neither did Harry react with pain when he was near these other soul pieces, like he did when he was near the main LV soul piece. But both the diary and the locket Hurcruxes attempted to influence Harry as well as others. Both of these Hocruxes exhibited Dementor-like qualities. Curious.

Mike