[the_old_crowd] Re: Stupid question about Horscrux!Harry

[Susan Albrecht]

dungrollin wrote:

> How about: Harry was a Hawshucks, but got un-shucked

> by DD in the missing 24 hours?

> TooLazyToThinkItThroughProperly!Dungrollin


SSSusan:
And SNAPE helped him!!  Maybe DRIBBLE SHADOWS needs to
be adjusted so that it wasn't the application of
further protection to Harry in those 24 hours but the
removal of a Hawshuck from him??

Actually... nah.  I think DD would've told Harry, if
that were the case.

And now that Dung's done all the snipping work for me
and I don't have to think how to best do that (merci,
dear), I can use this post to say, "I want to issue a
*big* 'Me, too!' to what Jen said!"  Her
disinclination to believe Harry as Horsecrop mirrors
mine, right down to the reasons.  Most especially, for
me, is the belief that creating a horcrux seems so
UNLIKELY to be able to come about unintentionally. 
I'm sold on the process being quite intentional, with
some heavy-duty ritual involved.

However, truth be told, the crux (haw) of the matter
is that Jen is right -- we DON'T know much about
possession, about how a soul sliver gets left behind,
or about how Horsluts are made and whether
accidental/unintentional ones are possible.  JKR has
the power to sweep away the possibilities entirely.
Or, as Jen said:

>>[T]he idea of an unintentional HC makes anything
possible of course, because, like the failed AK, we
and the WW apparently have no information about it so
all bets are off. <snip> But unintentional power
transfers or unintentional horcruxes? JKR can explain
either of those away.<<

We're likely to remain at the place where either you
*like* the idea of Harry!Hx or you do not unless/until
book 7 OR an interview in which JKR takes pity on us
and sheds light on some of the possibilities.

Siriusly Snapey Susan, who enjoyed Randy's Don't Point
That Wand at Me very much.