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

[polkais4lovers.livejournal.com]

Reading all the previous comments, I think they bring up interesting points. First, I ask this: do we know that Voldemort used Adava Kedavra on Harry? Also, do we know that the Adava Kedavra spell is used to create a horcrux? I'm not sure if it was ever specified, just that the act of killing mangles one's soul to enable the capture of it in an outside object. I think the brevity of Slughorn's conversation with TR was completely intentional so we would hit this junction as to whether or not a horcrux could be created unintentionally. My gut reaction is yes, it could be, because I think to kill with the intention to then make a horcrux requires a specific spell. There have been other wizard murderers, why haven't they made horcruxes as well if it jut required the desire to remain immortal?

I think James is the descendant of Gryffindor, which is why Voldemort, the descendant of Slytherin, decided to kill his child who, like him, had one muggle parent. I think something with Lily's sacrifice created a magical contract- these, we've come across in GOF but werent too well explained- which, by Voldemort acting to break it, the action failed and the last of his soul departed his body, part of it entering Harry and the other wandering off to Transylvania or wherever. I think Harry's scar is where Voldemort's soul shard entered his body, and when Voldemort is near or emitting emotion Harry feels it in the scar, as the soul wishes to rejoin with him as the concept is unnatural.

Sorry that was ridiculously long. Oh, and one last thing- since JK had divorced, I think it would be like her to implement that in the wizarding world, marriages or other magical contracts were inalienable on penalty of death. Have you seen any instances of divorce in Harry's world?

[kate_nepveu]

False!Moody says Harry is the only person known to survive AK.

We don't know that AK is used to create a horcrux.

since JK had divorced, I think it would be like her to implement that in the wizarding world, marriages or other magical contracts were inalienable on penalty of death

You're assuming that she didn't want to be divorced! I know some divorcees who'd want anything *but* marriages being indissolvable!

[kate_nepveu]

RE: Harry & AK: the narration says the same in book four, and probably other places.