Stupid question about Horscrux!Harry

[Judy]

Actually, the question of how a bit of evil!Voldie could stand being 
in Pure!Harry is a very good question, not stupid at all!  Glad you 
brought it up, Eloise.


Neri said:
> > The fact that Voldy tried to spare Lily also 
> > suggests he wanted to make her the Hx. 

> Jen: Urgh, Neri! That thought never occurred to me, that Voldemort 
> wanted to use Lily as a Horcrux. Why, though? A living thing as a 
> Horcrux sounded like a last-resort option. 

I don't think Voldemort would want Lily as a horcrux, either.  Now, 
if Voldemort *knew* that harry would survive the AK, it would have an 
advantage  -- the only way for Harry to destroy Voldemort would be to 
kill his own mother.  But, Voldemort expected Harry to die, so that 
wasn't an issue.

Lily would be a poor horcrux for several reasons.  Firstly, she was 
mortal -- which I'm not certain Nagini is. Nagini does not seem to 
correspond to any actual type of snake; there are no venomous snakes 
anywhere near her size. Also, "Naga" can refer to supernatural snake-
beings in Hindu mythology.

Seconly, Lily was clearly willing to die to destroy Voldemort; she 
was in the Order. So, if she knew she had a bit of Voldemort's soul 
in her, she would likely be willing to die to destroy it.

Jen said:
> I'd say him saving Lily 
> b/c Snape asked him to is out of the question (he's not into the 
> saving people thing <g>). 

Well, I'd like to defend my "teeew ewww to be treewww" theory that 
Voldemort wanted to save Lily for Snape.  Voldemort couldn't care 
less whether Lily died, but Snape had told Voldemort of the only 
person with the power to destroy him -- "and Lord Voldemort rewards 
his helpers." 

Jen hypothesized:
>So what's left for why he might ask Lily 
> to step aside? The only thing that makes sense for me, which would 
> answer multiple plot questions, is the idea Lily possessed a power 
> he feared might backfire on him....

Possible, but I don't think Voldemort ever imagined that killing Lily 
could backfire on him.  Otherwise, he might have avoided using magic 
on Harry -- he could have strangled Harry instead of AKing him.

-- Judy