Horcruxes and AKs: A theory of everything?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 191197



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> On 8/11/2011 3:10 PM, Geoff wrote:
> > I now wait for you to have fun picking holes in my theorising.
> >
> 
> Bart:
>      ...
> 
> The Horcrux thing is something I paid attention to, as ... I 
> was very firmly in the "Harry is not a horcrux" camp. Here's 
> where I made my mistake: I was thinking of a horcrux as something
> created by a specific spell, as opposed to generically a fragment
> of one's soul kept in a container. ...
> 
>  Bart
>

Steve:

Harry was functionally a Horcrux, but he may not have been literally a Horcrux. He was Horcrux-like. 

The Soul Bit was clinging to him, or so I speculated, and doing so with the desperate intent of remaining earth bound, but it wasn't necessarily bonded to him the way it would be if it have been bonded by Horcrux Creation Magic. Once again, Harry is, and is involved in, unique and unprecedented forms of magic. 

Perhaps that is why the Avada Kadavra was so easily able to break the bond between Harry and the soul bit clinging to him, because it was clinging and not bonded in the truest sense. 

I think very much that by the strict technical definition, Harry was not a Horcrux. Yet, by a more general definition, and functionally, he was. 

Again, what happens to Harry, several times in the series, is unique in the annals of magic, and is generally unprecedented.

At least, that's how I see it.

Steve/bboyminn