[grellis]

Does this mean you're through with HBP? I've been doing my best not to give stuff away, you know.

A few others have mentioned the possibility of Harry, or even just Harry's scar, being a horcrux, but I'm not sold. When could LV have accomplished this? I'm working on the assumption that creating a horcrux is a very difficult task, and that the object to be enchanted must be present when the spell is cast. (Could I sound like a bigger dork?) Additionally, the spell has to be cast around the time that a murder is committed, right? Well, maybe not, but that's the impression I get. I just don't see when LV could have accomplished it, and it can't be done by another wizard on his behalf. Drat! I hate waiting to be right, haha

[BibChr]

Well, but a murder was committed: Voldemort killed Harry's mother. Rowling has said that it's striking to her that more people haven't asked why V wasn't able to kill Harry, and why it almost killed him. I forget where I saw it worked out -- I'm rarely smart enough to think of these things by myself -- but someone made the case for how it happened.

And yes, we finished it. We read a huge amount of it on a recent trip to the Sierra. Certainly made the time fly by. I was gasping, and trying to be sure to concentrate on driving at the same time. But it's nice not to have to guard myself constantly anymore -- because, apart from Rowling, nobody REALLY knows more than I do!

(c:

Dan

[BibChr]

One thing I like about Rowling: she's better in each book. I still don't think she's a great writer. But I had to tsk! and groan a lot through the first three, less the next two, and admire some things in the sixth.

I definitely admire her plotting. And my gosh, the climax of the book -- I heard it one way, totally; and then when we finished, we (mostly my smarter wife) started saying, "Wait a minute...."

[TightyRighty]

Rowling never describes in book six how a horcrux is made but if Harry can speak Parseltongue and has a psychic link to Voldemort what do you think caused it if he doesn't have a piece of Voldemort's soul in him?

[GraceCoolidge]

I agree with you. I just can't get on board with "Harry is a Horcrux" (it sounds like a Dr. Seuss version of Harry Potter, for one thing). I keep forgetting to go back and re-read the part in OOP where Frank Bryce is killed. Dumbledore suspected that was when one of the horcruxes was created.

Besides, if Harry is the horcrux, why would all the Death Eaters be trying to kill him? Granted, Snape yells at the end of HBP that they are not to kill Harry, that he is the Dark Lord's, but even so, they've made a lot of attempts to whack Harry up to that point. Kind of careless, I'd say.

Finally, if Harry was the horcrux, don't you think Voldemort would have just grabbed him rather than messing around trying to get the sorcerer's stone from him in the first book? Why try to get the stone when your horcrux is right there?