[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?

[Tanniker Smith]

I would also think that it takes some effort to create a horcrux. Voldemort was out to kill Harry. Somehow he accidentally created a horcrux? I don't think so.

[grellis]

You're right, Dan--LV could have made HP into a horcrux after killing Lily. Assume he did that. Why would he then, immediately, try to kill HP? Even if he knew he had other bits of his soul tucked safely away, it doesn't make sense that he would split a part of it just to destroy it right afterwards. Another thing: Toward the end of OOTP, DD is explaining to HP what happened at the ministry--how LV had entered HP's body, only to depart almost immediately because he could not suffer the anguish of so much love. That was the gist, anyhow. It seems to me that that illustrates how poor a receptacle HP would make for a part of LV's soul.

I can't see Rowling killing off HP, maybe that's what a lot of my doubt comes down to. No matter how masterfully she could accomplish it, she would be vilified by most. Snape is a goner, I can't see any way around that. As for the other death, I'm starting to get the feeling, based on nothing, that Ron won't be around for his spin-off series.