A dastardly Voldy plan - was: Re: Lockets

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> wrote:

> 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.  
> 

An innate perversity plus nuggets of canon still hold me in thrall
to the 'no AK for Harry at GH' theory. Now is perhaps not the time to
restate all the arguments, maybe later when for the third time we're 
repeating threads deriving from HBP and wondering if anyone can 
come up with something that provides a change of tempo. For the
moment it's enough to know that there are two (minimum) schools
of thought and that the respective conclusions drawn about the 
events at GH will inevitably affect interpretations of later canon.

There is also the possibility that close analysis of newer material may
provide helpful clues in resolving this doctrinal chasm, for there are 
some indisputable facts which need to be explained one way or another.

Harry is more than just Harry. 
There're extras added to the basic model. These include 'powers' from
Voldy and the ability to mind-link (unless deliberately blocked) as an 
absolute minimum. Other possible additions include fragments of the
Voldy personality and/or Voldy essence, his anima, life-force or what-
ever you want to call it which may or may not be indistinguishable from
his soul or any part thereof - which would effectively result in 
Heircrux!Harry. 

IMO it's more than just powers - the Hat, the mind-link, the mutual
recognition between Harry and Diary!Tom, the ability to access the
Chamber, all are suggestive to the point of being clouted round the
ear by a sand-filled sock. Gentle hints they ain't.  

Something else we can safely assume is that you don't split your soul 
and deposit the off-cut into a Hurlucks accidentally. It's a deliberate
act. It's the result of the Darkest of Dark Magic. And Voldy seems set
on making seven of 'em. Thus if Harry is one of Voldy's safety-deposit
boxes it was planned - and there couldn't have been an AK. 

Power/personality transfer need not be so cut and dried. A mind 
intrusion - curtailed/repelled by his emplaced protection *might* result
in snippage of the probe, leaving one bit stranded. From what we've 
been told (so far) it's not nearly so easy to explain the transplant as 
the by-product of a failed AK.

How likely is it that we have a Horsechucks!Harry on our hands?
Well, the evidence is a bit thin.
DD's musings tend to militate against the idea - at first anyway.
He thinks that Egotrip!Voldy would go for ancient objects of magical
significance; Slytherin's ring, locket; the Hufflepuff Cup; something
from Ravenclaw (bet it's a wand - that Tarot link looks like another
of those anvil-sized hints) and maybe something connected with 
Gryffindor. 

Oh - an aside. There are suggestions that there's a cup in the Trophy
Room that is the Hufflepuff job cunningly disguised. Um. 
This would require that Tom stole the Huffs Cup, Hiccupsed it and then
sneaked it into Hogwarts when no-one was looking. Doubtful IMO.

But back to DD's ramblings. 
He then sort of contradicts himself as to likely repositories by bringing
up Nagini as a possibilty. Don't like this much; probably a red herring 
stretched out and painted green. However, it does confirm that living 
beings can be used as Haircuts, which still leaves Harry as the possible
missing sixth. 

Herchucks!Harry is gonna be one of the favourite theories from now on,
but I have to admit, that for now at least, to feeling luke-warm about
the idea.  Dunno why, just a gut feeling. Probably wrong. There should
be some reason why Harry and Diary!Tom feel like soul-mates, shouldn't
there? Why not this? Still.....

Kneasy