Stupid question about Horscrux!Harry

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Jen wrote:
> Oh, pfffft. Here's the deal. Horcrux!Harry could explain many 
> things, I can't deny. I can argue the subtleties of possession, but 
> JKR could turn around and say, "Oh well, it was different in 
Harry's 
> case because of his mother's protection. The soul sliver resided in 
> Harry but was unable to actually possess him as a small child." 
With 
> one sweeping statement she can erase all the information we have on 
> possession. Neither possessed the other because they have equal 
> powers or something of the like.
> 
> Just as easily she can erase the Harry!Horcrux with "no chance a 
> piece of Voldemort's soul entered Harry after his mother's 
> sacrifice, he was protected from that. The transfer of powers had 
> never been seen before because we've never seen a failed AK before. 
> No one knew that would happen."
> 
> So what's a theorizer to do? Make hay while the sun shines?

Neri:
<deep sigh> No kidding, this is exactly what she did to us with the 
mystery of Voldy's immortality. Two of the main clues were Voldy 
saying that the DEs knew of the steps he took and Voldy becoming 
mortal again after his resurrection (paraphrasing from memory: "I set 
my sights lower. I would settle for my mortal body and my old 
strength before courting eternal life again"). Both of these clues 
don't work with the horwhatisit thing. It could be argued that they 
outright contradict it.

But still, if we look for a theory that we *can* assemble based on 
what we know today, and might explain the mind connection, the 
transferred powers, the "in essence divided" and the gleam, I don't 
see any another candidate but Hx!Harry. It looks like any other 
theory would have to assume that either JKR isn't going to explain 
these mysteries in any satisfying way, or she's going to explain them 
based on completely new information in Book 7. So for me it's either 
Hx!Harry or quitting.  

Jen wrote:
> The most persuading factor to me at this point is that Dumbledore 
> doesn't suspect Harry is a Horcrux. He understands more about 
> Horcruxes than anyone else besides Voldemort, and he appears to 
> understand what happened at Godric's Hollow better than anyone 
else. 
> If he didn't put these two together, and JKR said "his guesses are 
> never wide from the mark"

Neri:
Perhaps Dumbledore did suspect it. Perhaps he meant to tell Harry 
about it but Death got him first. After all, if there's anything in 
The Gleam and in Essence Divided, then we must assume that Dumbledore 
didn't get to tell Harry about all his suspicions, so why wouldn't Hx!
Harry be among them?

Or maybe Dumbledore never suspected. Thinking (but Dumbledore was 
never sure about it) that Voldy meant to use Harry's murder for a Hx, 
and that he finally settled on a living Hx (Nagini) would still count 
as not "wide of the mark", I think. 

Neri