Is Harry a Horcrux?

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <kking0731 at g...> 
wrote:

Snow:
> We have known since COS that Voldy left a bit of himself in Harry. 
> This statement by Dumbledore appears to assure us that Harry could be 
> a possible Horcrux:
>  
> "Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said, 
> thunderstruck. "It certainly seems so." COS pg. 333 U.S.
> 
> Well there you have it, Voldemort putting a piece of himself in an 
> object equals Horcrux
or does it? Did Voldemort intend on supplying 
> infant Harry with a bit of his soul? 

Geoff:
If I may be a bit picky, you didn't give the full quote, which I think 
gives a slightly different spin on things.

'"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore calmly, "because 
Lord Voldemort - who is the last remaning descendant of Salazar  
Slytherin - can speak Parseltongue. Unless I'm much mistaken, he 
transferred some of those powers to you the night he gave you that 
scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure..."
"Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said, thunderstruck. 
"It certainly seems so." '

(COS "Dobby's Reward" UK edition p.245)

Dumbledore speaks of powers which to me smacks of intellect. It is 
Harry who uses the word "bit". Although Dumbledore seems to concur with 
Harry, there is probably no reason for him to play with semantics over 
Harry's words. 

We do know that he began to realise that Voldemort had created 
Horcruxes at about this time.

'Dumbledore paused for a moment, marshalling his thoughts and then 
said, "Four years ago, I received what I considered cetain proof that 
Voldemort had split his soul."
"Where?" asked Harry. "How?"
"You handed it to me, Harry," said Dumbledore. "The diary, Riddle's 
diary, the one giving instructions on how to reopen the Chamber of 
Secrets."'

(HBP "Horcruxes" p.467 UK edition)

He later says to Harry:
"I am sure that he was intending to make his final Hoorcrux with your 
death."

(ibid. p.473)

So, does this mean that Voldemort had lost a piece of soul to Harry 
without realising it? that he was still planning to kill Harry and make 
a Horcrux and would unknowingly be destroying one anyway?

I think we can only speculate on this - as we have been doing for days 
on how tangible is a soul or a mind - but I am minded to stick with my 
view that the transfer of powers was of the mind and not of the soul. 
How many days do we now wait before JKR puts us out of our misery and 
guides us to the centre of the labyrinth?