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kate_nepveu

A random HP thought

Jul 17, 2005 10:29

This is appallingly spoilery; be warned.

( minor thought on a major spoiler )

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corruptedjasper July 17 2005, 14:48:53 UTC

Neither can live while the other survives, though. If this theory was correct, it'd be closer to say Neither can live while the other dies.

On the other hand, since we haven't had any Voldemort point of views, we *don't know* that Voldemort knows this or not, so only your point 1 remains. I'll note that Draco was sent to kill Dumbledore, not Harry, and Snape apparently wasn't instructed to kill Harry off either, at least not as a priority.

kate_nepveu July 17 2005, 14:55:43 UTC

In books 4 & 5 V clearly tries to kill Harry, which means he must not know.

corruptedjasper July 17 2005, 15:03:25 UTC

Or he considers the risk acceptable, after all, he's got 5 others. And I'm not sure if you're supposed to be able to get your piece of soul back from a horcrux, but maybe when the horcrux is destroyed it just flutters in the air waiting to be shoved back into either its regular body or a new horcrux, and only dissipated if you don't do that. If that was the case, he might want Harry killed only when he is present himself, so he can recapture the bit of soul.

kate_nepveu July 17 2005, 15:06:44 UTC

I grant that nothing we know rules this out; it seems metaphysically inelegant to me, but that's not a substantive argument.

(I still think V. doesn't know.)

corruptedjasper July 17 2005, 15:59:32 UTC

Personally, I feel that Harry is probably not a Horcrux.

But what if *Ginny* is one, having taken over at least part of the Diary-Tom?

Now that would put some serious murder-suicide tones into book7.

kate_nepveu July 17 2005, 18:43:02 UTC

I don't think that's consistent with the ending of book 2, but it's very interesting to contemplate.

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