A random HP thought

[kate_nepveu]

This is appallingly spoilery; be warned.

The Harry-is-a-Horcrux theory seems to have run around fandom like wildfire. I admit it explains the Parseltongue and the mental link, but I note that it requires:

1. Horcruxes can be made accidentially (which, I suppose, if the spell is to be cast at the instant of a murder, might work);
2. Horcruxes can be made without the caster's knowledge (which, I suppose, if you're promptly disembodied, might be understandable); and
3. Horcruxes can not be recognized when the caster comes face-to-face with one (which, I suppose, might be implied by the fact that Voldemort doesn't feel the destruction of other Horcruxes).

This is pretty tough to pull off. But, if you can get past all that, note:

This means that Harry's not the sixth Horcrux, the unknown thing that's likely Gryffindor's or Ravenclaw's (with the seventh part residing in Voldemort's body). He's a seventh, one unknown to either side; and if he is, then he's in for a nasty surprise when he's destroyed the locket, the cup, the snake, the thing of Gryffindor or Ravenclaw's, and then faces Voldemort thinking that Voldemort is mortal.

Comments

[hhw]

yahtzee63's theory of Harry the Horcrux:

Voldemort went to Godric's Hollow to kill baby Harry. James fought him -- in vain, but apparently well. Voldemort, realizing this to be a serious battle, used James' murder to cast the Horcrux spell, fixing his attention on some relic of Godric Gryffindor that was in the house. (Remember how JKR once said the name of Godric's Hollow was very significant?) He did this at the same time Lily was casting the protective charm on Harry. The protective charm did the one thing that would ensure Voldemort could not kill Harry: it made Harry the Horcrux instead. Harry could no more die than Voldemort, once Voldemort's soul was partly contained in him (as well as in six other beings/objects). Therefore the Avada Kedavra failed. The spell Voldemort cast scarred Harry and refracted back onto Voldemort himself (due to the soul transfer), which is what turned him into the Evil Gray Mr. Bill-like Thing of Books 1-4.

[kate_nepveu]

Hmm. Still requires that V. either not recognize H. as a Horcrux [*] when they come face-to-face, or have some way to recapture the bit of soul once H. is dead (which latter I really doubt), but interesting, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[*] Is it just me that finds that word impossible to type?

[reesei.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder how this ties in to Dementors, who can suck the soul out of someone's body.

Can the Dementors return the bit of Voldemort-soul to him if they take it from Harry?

One possibility for Godric's Hollow is that Voldemort just didn't realize what would happen if he put all of his soul into Horcruci - after all, no one has ever made more than one before. He overdid it, and ended up dead.

To become rebodied, he had to take something from Nagini in the unicorn-blood and snake-venom potion; part of his soul, maybe?

Just throwing things out there.

[kate_nepveu]

(I am suddenly flashing, most disconcertingly, on a Bujold novel. Nevermind.)

I wouldn't like to be the one to convince a Dementor to give up a piece of soul that it's got, but--or, wait, could a Dementor go to Kiss Harry & get interrupted and only get the piece of V's soul?

. . . probably not. The world is a better place for my realizing that I can't plot.

[reesei.livejournal.com]

(In which way? I'm assuming you mean one of the Chalions. Curse, with an encapsulated soul, Paladin, with conduits to properly distribute soul or tethered bits of demon souls? Any could relate, in different ways...)

It would hinge on how directly and thoroughly Voldemort controls the Dementors. And if they can actually regurgitate consumed souls on command. If you want disconcerting images, Voldemort as baby bird is right up there.

[kate_nepveu]

_Paladin_ (rot-13): jura Vfgn ergheaf gur fbhy-ovgf gb gur tebbz jubfr anzr V unir sbetbggra.

And, yes, that is extremely disconcerting.