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"Tell me the truth!"
Anyone else think that either A.) Tom Riddle could do Legilimency before even going to Hogwarts or B.) Was so obsessed with the truth that he decided to become the most accomplished Legilimency master ever?
But onto much more important issues...
I am almost 100% positive that Harry is a Horcrux. If he isn't, I will be absolutely shocked. I haven't gotten it all worked out yet, but perhaps Voldemort went to Godric's Hollow with the full intent of killing James, Lily, and Harry--two out of the three murders, he managed. Seeing how protective Lily was, how much of a mother she was to Harry, seeing that sort of love most likely for the VERY FIRST TIME after searching the world for it (remember Voldemort talking to Dumbledore in his office?)...he decided not only to turn Harry (who I'm still convinced is the heir to Gryffindor and therefore meets the standards of being "something of Gryffindor's or Ravenclaw's") into a trophy of his two recent victims (Lily and James had, after all, faced Voldemort three times and gotten away, so he must've been pretty damn pissed off at them), by perhaps taking him in and nurturing him as a father would a son (or whatever Voldemort's sick version of that would be), but to also place a part of his soul into Harry.
As he did this, Harry was marked through not just this lightning bolt scar of his, but also by now possessing part of Voldemort's soul. That's why the Sorting Hat wanted to put him into Slytherin--that's why he shares parts of Voldemort's powers--that's why they have that connection. It is entirely possibly that either Baby Harry, having just seen the murder of his mother, used Avada Kedavra out of not just self-defense, but revenge, too (far stretch, I know, grasping at straws, he was only a baby, but he IS one of the, if not THE most powerful wizard alive, with the most potential at least)...or somehow, for some reason, by tearing his soul for a seventh time, Voldemort killed himself.
"Neither shall live while the other survives."
In order to be his true self, Harry must manage to rid himself of the Horcrux (perhaps by killing himself or containing Voldemort in some fashion so he can't do any harm, but is still no longer "living", so to say, so he can't use another Horcrux). Maybe Harry WILL die in the end, although I doubt it. Remember what Dumbledore said about containing Horcruxes in living creatures?
"...to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business."
A business that backfired on Voldemort, because he followed a self-made destiny and created the only wizard that can destroy him.
Anyone wish to argue the point? I'm trying to look for serious flaws and loopholes. We obviously don't know everything we need to know at the moment, this is all just based off of what we know and what is a possibility. But I really want to debate the matter with someone who thinks otherwise.
So the Horcruxes, by my theory, are as follows:
1. Tom Riddle's diary
2. The Cup
3. The Locket
4. Nagini
5. The Ring
6. Harry Potter himself
Maybe Voldemort created Nagini as the last one instead of Harry...maybe the one Dumbledore thinks was the sixth one was just the fifth one, the "Gryffindor or Ravenclaw" one...
"However if my calculations are correct, Voldemort was still at least one Horcrux short of his goal of six when he entered your parents' house with the intention of killing you. He seems to have reserved the process of making Horcruxes for particularly significant deaths."
It goes on to say that yes, Harry would have been that particularly significant death, but so could Lily and James. Dumbledore told Voldemort in his office that he still has a weakness, a lacking that Voldemort probably couldn't stand to have had--the knowledge of what it was like to love. So Voldemort thought having six Horcruxes would make him invinsible--why not turn the object he thought was destined to kill him into a part of him, making him, like I said before, a father in a way? Through Baby Harry, he could learn about love, the love that made Lily Potter die for her son. If he mastered his final weakness, that, perhaps even above having six Horcruxes, would make him the most powerful wizard in the world.
That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
I was gonna write a huge long thing about how Snape was actually acting on Dumbledore's orders through Legilimency // The Unbreakable Vow, pleading for him to understand that Snape must kill Dumbledore in order to make it work...that Snape fled only because he knew Harry had witnessed it and could no longer stay...etc. etc. etc.
But the Horcrux thing sort of took over this post.
I am SO excited!