chthonya | You-know-who's you-know-whats (Reply)

If Harry is the seventh Horcrux, that might explain why the Dementors went for him first rather than Sirius at the end of PoA. And the abilities he transferred to Harry.

I still can't see how that would work, though. Voldemort would presumably have had an object handy into which to deposit part of his soul, but he didn't actually manage to kill Harry. Would the spell work because he killed (as far as he was able) himself? Or perhaps it's the intent behind AK that rips a soul, whether it works or not.

And Dumbledore himself thought up the theory of Voldemort transferring abilities to Harry. Surely if there was a possibility that Harry was a Horcrux, he would have realised and said something? Or perhaps this is another example of having to 'protect' Harry, or making Harry get on with destroying Voldemort until he's in too deep to turn back when he realises.

What about the gleam in Dumbledore's eye at the end of GoF? Does this relate to the Horcrux!Harry question? Could it be that the blood somehow contains enough of Voldie's soul fragment that Harry wouldn't have to die? (But Voldie would have known that, surely. Maybe he was intending to make a replacement Horcrux at the graveyard.)

If Voldemort had taken an object to Godric's Hollow, is it still there or was it removed by someone who was with him that night (and why is JKR being so cagey about that)?

Also, JKR predicted in her interview that we would be able to identify 'at least one' Horcrux by the end of the week. So it seems that we've met, or had clues to, more than one during the course of the series. Hmmm.