A dastardly Voldy plan - was: Re: Lockets

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> Kneasy wrote:
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> If Harry is a Hearseclucks then if he ain't careful then he could become
> another Voldy - and Voldy planned it this way. There's this sprog who's
> equal to Voldy - fine, why not make him into another Voldy? Then if one
> day it's High Noon on Hogsmead High Street, wands akimbo, Harry wins
> and Voldy bites the dust, then Voldy still survives in Harry. Voldy
wins no
> matter which corpse gets dragged off to Boot Hill. And he planned it
this
> way right back at GH. Ooh! Nasty! Talk about hedging your bets! 'Bout
> time Voldy lived up to his reputation of a perverted mastermind, and
> this would do it with bells on.
> 
> Voldy is in a win-win situation. He can't lose - even if the other
Hurskroks
> are destroyed - unless Harry can get the Voldy fragment out of his
head. 
> If he can't then Voldy will eventually take him over. DD knew this -
hence 
> the ".. in essence divided?" enquiry - there was a danger that it
might have 
> already begun when Harry was linked to the Voldy mind.
> 

Neri:
Naturally I like the possibility of Harrycrux. However, Voldy
intentionally making a Harry a Hx is problematic. First, it seems more
and more that Voldy indeed tried to AK baby Harry at GH, and why would
he AK a Hx he had just made?

You might say that Voldy didn't actually use an AK on Harry at GH,
because the echo of the AK didn't appear in the Priori Incantatum
sequence (although, as I wrote here before, the fact that the echoes
of Voldy's Cruciatus and Imperius in the graveyard also didn't appear
strongly supports the notion that failed curses don't count in Priori
Incantatem). You still have to explain, however, why the echo of the
Hx magic itself didn't appear. This you might counter by saying that
maybe the Hx magic doesn't require a wand. Fine, but this still
doesn't explain why, if there was never a rebounding AK, did Voldy
lose his body and was vaporized at GH. To use Jo Mooseming's
terminology, I'd estimate the above leaves the theory of Intentional
Harrycrux with two Quarts and a Sack, if not an outright Anvil.  

Now lets consider the much less problematic theory of Unintentional
Harrycrux: Voldy only intended to use the murder of the Potters to rip
what's remained of his soul for constructing his sixth and last Hx.
Maybe he planned to make Lily a living Hx and this is why he tried to
spare her, but this isn't necessary for the theory. Lily refuses to
step aside and Voldy decides to use something more reliable for a Hx,
maybe Nagini. So he AKs Lily and unknowingly activates the ancient
magic protection on Harry. Then he tries to AK baby Harry, the AK
rebounds and hits him. Voldy's body dies, but his soul is still
protected by all his previous Hxs. However, instead of a single soul
released into the air, *two* soul parts are released, because the
double murder he had just committed ripped Voldy's soul. The seventh
remaining part of Voldy flies to some forest in Albania to scheme his
return to power, but the sixth part, fluttering desperately around,
enters through the open gash in baby Harry's forehead into his mind.
Harry is now the sixth Hx.

There aren't any big problems that I can see with Unintentional
Harrycrux, but there are some interesting open questions:

1. Does Voldy know Harry is his sixth Hx? (not likely IMO, since he
tried killing Harry several times since GH, even after he discovered
about the mind connection between them).

2. Did DD know or guess, and if so why didn't he tell Harry?

3. How do The Gleam and Essence Divided can be fitted?

4. And of course, can Harry kill Voldy without sacrificing his own life?


Neri