Horcruxes and AKs: A theory of everything?

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191198

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > I now wait for you to have fun picking holes in my theorising.

Bart:
>      Cutting out everything you said for brevity; I'm not so much poking 
> holes in your theorizing as much as offering alternative points of view.
> 
>      The Horcrux thing is something I paid attention to, as looking 
> through the archives of this group (don't bother), you will find that 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. Now, due to the rarity of creation of horcruxes, 
> combined by the possibly unprecedented move by Morty to create multiple 
> horcruxes, it is quite possible that Harry is the only case where a 
> horcrux was created by a means other than the standard one. The point 
> here is that while standard horcruxes behave in certain ways, this does 
> not mean that that the Harrycrux would behave in the same manner.

Geoff:
A few holes in my theorising will help to ventilate my thinking.
:-)

I too belonged to the HINAH camp and also plead guilty to making 
the same interpretational mistake.

Bart: 
>      Oh, I think you missed one of the AK's; didn't Morty fire off one 
> in the flight of the 7 Harry's?

Geoff:
I didn't bring that one in because I was looking at situations where 
one might say that the confrontation was "choreographed", by which 
I mean that Voldemort largely set up the situation.

Making myself think a little more about Horcruxes in the last few days 
presented me with another curiosity for people to chew over, something 
that puzzles me about the Godric's Hollow night.

In "The Princes Tale" we see Dumbledore in the Pensieve memory telling 
Snape about the piece of Voldemort's soul that had latched onto Harry  
and then in "Kings Cross", he  tells Harry that he was the Horcrux that 
Voldemort never intended to make.

Now, we know that in general a Horcrux is a deliberate object made or 
adapted to hold a soul fragment. Now Voldemort had already made 
Horcruxes. I'm not sure of the timeline for Nagini but I suspect that by 
this date, all the six intended Horcruxes and their soul fragments were 
in existence. But Voldemort had killed many people and not created 
Horcruxes so, if killing produces a soul fragment, his being must have 
been filled with them. Also, he had just killed James and Lily so there 
were two more fragments kicking around.

So. When the Avada Kedavra backfired on Voldemort and he was 
disembodied, why did one fragment - a single fragment - among all 
the others escape to go to Harry and not disappear into a non-corporeal 
form as did the others?