Re: Why I think Harry is not a Horcrux

Thom Madura wrote:
Jane Grey wrote:
Thom Madura wrote:

Jane Grey wrote:


JoeMo wrote:

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JK Rowling's World Book Day Chat, March 4, 2004
"Cathedral: Don't want to rune the ending, but will we be finding out
more about the significance of the shape of Harry's scar in future
books?
JK Rowling replies -> The shape is not the most significant aspect of
that scar, and that's all I'm going to say!"


Hmm, what can she be referring to? maybe the significance is that the
scar is the source of all the LV powers in harry!

THere are LOTS of possibilities here. JKR said the shape is not the most
significant part of the scar - which means that we have mor to learn
other than ParcelTongue and the communication connection.


but if what she says doesn't imply that the signicance of the scar is
that it provides harry with Parceltongue and is the source of the
mental connection with LV then why do you think her comment means "that
we have mor to learn other than ParcelTongue and the communication
connection." ?


http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0304-wbd.htm

Detroit News, March 19, 2001
"I chose the lightning bolt because it was the most plausible shape for
a distinctive scar. As you know, the scar has certain powers, and it
gives Harry warnings. I can't say more than that, but there is more to
say."


Hmm what does she mean by "the scar has certain powers AND it gives
Harry warnings" ???? -as far as I know, all we know is that the scar
gives harry warnings in the form of pain. what powers is she on about?
maybe she slipped up and frogot that we don't know that harry's scar is
the source of LV's powers!

We do know about one - Harry speaks Parceltongue - since he wasn';t
taught that - had to get it from Riddle.


but we don't know, from the books, that harry's slytherin traits have
anything to do with his scar. all we know is that LV accidentally
transfered some powers into harry the night the AK rebounded. but, IMO,
JKR's comments above indicate that harry's LV powers are in his scar,
and for me that means his scar is the likely horcrux suspect and not
him himself...

--
Jane Grey


Except - the one thing we do not know about a Horcrux is if it transfers
powers to its host or not.

we can extrapolate from the fact the TomRiddle in the Diary had LV's
powers that power resides in the soul and in any fragments that might
have been ripped from the soul. If a wizard's power was a tangible in
itself why haven't wizards with squib children researched about
transfering their squib-kids some magical ability?

Also concider this passage from CoS;

"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore calmly,
"because Lord Voldemort -- who is the last remaining ancestor
of Salazar Slytherin -- can speak Parseltongue. Unless I'm much
mistaken, he transferred some of his own 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."

"So I should be in Slytherin," Harry said, looking desperately into
Dumbledore's face. "The Sorting Hat could see Slytherin's power in
me, and it --"

you have to wonder why JKR had harry rephrase DD's 'he transferred some

of his own powers to you' to 'Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?' -i

mean, to me that's not necessarily a logical rephrase. so maybe it's
because harry, being a wizard, instinctively knew that powers aren't a
tangible thing in themselves.

Harry - presumably - has a complete.,
undivided soul. That leaves no place for the fragments to "get in".

your presumtpion that soul fragments need a special place to 'get in'
is unfounded. If soul fragments can be encased in a Ring or a Snake,
why not in Harry's elbow or scar?

OF course - I still believe that Harry is NOT a Horcrux. That means that
the scar is not a soul bit at all - but it is what transered the power
from Riddle to Harry.

you actually think it is more logical to suppose that a scar caused a
mysterious power transfer than to suppose that harry has LV's powers
because he accidentaly aquired LV's soulbit?

(btw, i don't think that the scar is a soulbit, i think tha it is
likely that the scar houses a soulbit)

--
Jane Grey

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