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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.

ou probably have your finger on the weak point, but the explanation I read theorized that making Harry the horcrux wasn't intentional; it was a byproduct of the splitting of V's soul when he killed Harry's mom.

The strongest argument for, to me, is Rowling's teasing demurral on explaining her personal faith, saying that if we knew that then everyone from 10 to 60 would be able to predict the end. If that faith is any kind of a Christian faith, then the hero must die to accomplish "salvation." But would that also include a resurrection?

It certainly would make for a gut-wrenching, jaw-dropping, tense conclusion; and an interesting and more three-dimensional growth of Harry from a self-centered, loosely-principled, serial-lying teen to one who'd lay down his life to destroy evil.

I think there are going to be lots of surprises. My biggest fear is insulating myself from spoilers. I'm very seriously considering having my wife and myself take the day off, or two, shipping the kids off, and having a readathon -- for the first time, ever!

Which is rather a compliment to someone I consider a second-rate (at best) literary talent, but am beginning to think of as a first-rate plotweaver.

Dan

I think it's possible that Harry became an accidental horcrux when V killed Lily.

When faced with the choice of killing the "one who could vanquish" him, and saving a piece of his soul, V chose to kill Harry. (He'd already made horcruxes and was obsessed with immortality.)

So he AV's Harry. Lily's sacrificial mother love causes the curse to bounce off Harry and render V helpless and bodyless.

However, Harry still has the soul piece in him. Maybe Lily's love forced it out of Harry through what is now the scar on his forehead??

There are also the 24 hours between the events at Godrick's Hollow and when Harry is brought to the Dursley's.

In HBP, the horcrux ring worn by DD has a crack down the middle that was caused when DD destroyed the soul piece residing within it. I wonder if there is a similarity between Harry's scar and the crack in the horcrux ring??