AKs and Horcrux!Harry and soul-ripping (was: Re: Stupid question about...)

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Debbie wrote:
> either the AK was aimed at someone else, or Hx!Harry was
> unintentional.  Since it doesn't appear that magical powers transfer
> to an ordinary Horcrux, it's possible that the destruction of
> Voldemort's body released a package of soul and magical powers that
> hit Harry on the forehead.

Neri:
I don't think it would be needed to send the soul and powers in two 
different packages. In the Potterverse the soul seems to include also 
the magical powers. Otherwise Hx!Diary!Ginny wouldn't know 
parseltongue, and he/she wouldn't be able to open the Chamber and 
call the basilisk.

Or maybe the powers of the Hx!Diary came from the memoriesthat were 
recorded in the diary. However, it seems that Harry got some 
Voldemort memories too, because in CoS he felt the name R.M. Riddle 
sounded familiar. Moreover, according to Lupin Potterverse souls do 
include memories, because in PoA he says:

"You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and 
heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self any more, 
no memory, no ... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. 
You'll just ... exist. As an empty shell."

These "no... anything" and "empty shell" make me think that the 
Potterverse soul also includes the "mind". You can exist without it 
but you'll be a kind of vegetable. My feeling is that "soul" here 
includes both memories and powers, and therefore Harry can be a 
living Hx.

Another interesting addition to our very meager knowledge about 
Horthingies is that, when Dumbledore suggests the theory of Hx!
Nagini, he mentions that Voldemort seems to have a lot of control 
over her, even for a parselmouth. Dumbledore uses this as an argument 
that Nagini might indeed be a Hx. This suggests that if you create a 
living Hx it may generate a mind connection between you. This would 
explain the mind connection between Voldy and Harry, although in this 
case Voldy got less control than he would want to. This also makes 
the idea the Voldy had originally meant to make Lily his living Hx 
more likely. Voldy had reason to think that Hx!Lily would be then 
under his complete control, and therefore quite safe to use. 

Neri