September's Debate - IS Harry A Horcrux?

Well?

Be honest that would be very interesting, but I'm not sure.

ok. Harry isn't a Horcrux, not even his scar for crying out loud. ok, just had to get that off my chest.

If Harry or his scar is a Horcrux, why did the Dark Lord try to kill him so many times? And why would he put a Horcrux in him, when he is so close to Dumbledore?

if harry is a horcrux then the dark lord wud hav to kill him in order to restore his soul so tht he can live agen...maybe thts wot the prophecy meant by 'one cannot live while the other survives'

No, it said "Neither can live while the other survives." It has a blatantly obvious meaning.

Harry. A horcrux? No. It seem too far fetched, even for the Potter series.

one wuld have to die

it doesnt seem like voldie would put part of his soul so then he could just destroy it.

I have to agree. I most certainly wouldn't want a bit of my soul in someone who may or may not be prophecised to destroy me. And it's hard to see how it would work. Voldermort was barely able to control Harry for a short time at the end of book five, it's hard to see how a bit of his soul could last in there for years.

And besides isn't that how Voldermort was stopped the first time? He tried to kill Harry with magic and it all went wrong and nearly led to his undoing? Seems odd that if he was trying to put a bit of his soul in Harry he would try to kill him as a baby, then when he returned in book four and then again in book five.

im not sure

Perhaps the stolen Horcrux was surfgically implanted into Harry at birth... and it was that that stopped Voldemort's spell, rather than his mothers love....

still doesn't explain why he had tried to kill him all of these years...

voldermort is weak enuf why wuld he make it worse for himself

NO because if we take the spoiler last line

Spoiler:
Hermione: Harry! Where's your scar?

Harry is

Spoiler:
still alive at the end of the seventh novel

NO!

Who said that the last line is "Harry where is your scar?"? Rowling said that the last chapter would tell what everyone does after 'the end'. You know, what they go on to do and what careers they have and whatnot. I doubt that that would be the last line.

Ok I'll re-phrase, the last line of the actual story of how Voldemort died. The last actual "chapter" isn't really part of the story. We need to remember that this is all speculation. Let's not get carried away like Episode III.

haha.. Harry Potter series, the next Star Wars? Lucas have to make an Episode VII then, to rival Rowling's 7 books and 7 movies (soon)..Hehe..dun get me wrong, i'm a staunch fan of both Star Wars and Harry Potter.

"Neither can live while the other survives", or so the prophecy states. But its rather misleading isn't it? The line by itself can also mean that both can die in the course isn't it?

The Prophecy states that:
Harry live, Voldemort dies - POSSIBLE
Harry dies, Voldemort lives - POSSIBLE
Both live - NOT POSSIBLE
Both die - POSSIBLE

Although it must be a wee bit metaphorical. After all both of them are technically alive at the end of book and in book five and book six and Harry had been alive for a while before Voldermort tried to kill him as a baby... and theoretically if one or the other managed to hide for 50 years then they would both still be alive...

Though I have always thought it is certainly possible that Harry could die. After all it doesn't say one HAS to live, more like the only chance one has to live is for the other to die.

True..

What? Okay, you all are confusing me. But my opinion is yes, Harry could be a HORCRUX. But in the end of the book when Harry says that he doesn't want to go to school... maybe he doesn't come back... Hogwarts isn't safe anymore... so that could lead up to finding out who he really is. Oh, how I wish Harry didn't grow up so fast!!! 🙁 You know, J.K. needs to make more books that realate to Harry Potter. I know she won't. But I only wish.

It would be interesting to know how a Horcrux is made, beyond the need to have killed someone. Does it involve a long or short ritual before or after the murder? Spells? Special objects (other then the item to be the horcrux)? Because if it was very complicated it seems unlikely that Voldermort would have had the time to do it to Harry after killing his parents as when he attacked Harry he was defeated in a way...

Unless of course it wasn't a death spell that backfired one him, maybe Harry's protection messed up the Horcrux ritual and led to Voldermorts near demise, though thats pretty out there...