Harry Potter and the Brainwave of Doom

[tysolna]

In my spare time (hah!)... Ok. I have a rule: The books I am reading in the kitchen and the bathroom are "fun books", "spare time" books because I can't be bothered with criticism texts early in the morning or while eating lunch. I read enough of them during the day.

Anyway! In my spare time, I've been re-reading the Harry Potter series. Not only has this made me appreciate Rowling's ability to plot and use continuity, it has also made me appreciate "Order of the Phoenix". It is a lot better than I remembered it from the first, admittedly rushed, reading. The same goes for "Half-Blood Prince", where I've just reached one of the final chapters, the one where the thing happens that was a Big Effing Spoiler when that book came out, even though a friend of mine knew what would happen beforehand.
So, we were all wondering about that "Severus, please...", right? And do you know what, I think I figured it out!


It all revolves around Horcruxes, and the seven shards of Voldemort's soul. Apart from the one still residing in Voldemort's snakelike body, we know of the diary of Tom Riddle, and Marvolo's ring. So there's four left.
Dumbledore is suspecting one Horcrux to be Voldemort's snake Nagini, and I'll go with that for now. Another one is supposedly in the real locket of Slytherin, yet another in Hufflepuff's goblet. The final Horcrux is supposed to be in an unknown item belonging to either Ravenclaw or Gryffindor.
Now, we have already established that a Horcrux can be a living being, and it's most likely something belonging to one of the houses of Hogwarts. The question is, really, would Voldemort put a part of his soul in his worst enemy?
Is Dumbledore a Horcrux?
Did he have to die because that would destroy the Horcrux, and did Severus Snape by killing Dumbledore manage to fulfil his duty to both ther Order of the Phoenix and Voldemort, or rather his Unbreakable Vow?
What do you think?


... and why can't I have brainwaves like this about stuff that matters? :D

Comments

[nugirlontheblok.livejournal.com]

Hmmm- I see I'll have to revisit the books to look at your theory. It's quite a while since I read The Order of the Phoenix. And I have a quite different idea about Dumbledore's death- but I'm not divulging it yet!


*amazing how being relaxed and enjoying something we don't have to do makes the brain seem to work better! ;p

[tysolna]

You're not telling? Aw, why not? :D

Absolutely, and it's frightening, because what I have to do is something I enjoy... but still, it's not happening as often as I would want to, that brainwave thing!

[dadi.livejournal.com]

Umh. I am part of the always smaller group of people who have NOT read a HP book to its end. I bought the first one eons ago when it came out, and it bored me to pieces, so I did not finish it (very rare for me), and therefore I never got another one. I don't do the "not reading out of spite because everybody is hype on it", I read every crap that is around, even if usually before it becomes hype. But Rowling just didn't catch me the right way. Maybe I should retry. Hm. If you find it interesting, that really makes me reconsider.

[tysolna]

I didn't start with the HP books until after the third one came out as paperback, because I am one of those who do the "not reading out of spite because everybody is hype on it". But somehow, on a lonely day in London, I was caught...

... but if you want read books of that type, try the Young Wizards book Diane Duane writes. Much better, in my humble opinion. Series starts with "So you want to be a Wizard".

[fangedsekhmet.livejournal.com]

Ditto with the first part. Kept ignoring it until one bored evening I watched the first film... curses!

[wanderbohemian.livejournal.com]

I don't think Voldemort would have been able to make Dumbledore a Horcrux as Dumbledoor was the most powerful good wizard out there and the only one Voldemort ever feared. How could Voldemort have gotten close enough to cast the spell?

But when Voldemort went to Godrick's Hollow he was intending to make his final Horcrux with Harry's death, thus making him all powerful while destroying the one who could defeat him. Backfire, ghostlike existence, etc. etc. etc.

So...

What if he completed his the spell as the Avada Kadavra backfired and made Harry himself the Horcrux?

[fangedsekhmet.livejournal.com]

I'm more with this idea, as it could also explain how Harry can speak parcel-force.... *l*

[tysolna]

How could Voldemort have gotten close enough to cast the spell?

I don't know if the thing / person becoming the Horcrux actually has to be in the vicinity of the one casting the spell. Also, I am not sure of the timeline - did Myrtle die before or after Voldemort found out about the Horcruces?

Harry as Horcrux? Intriguing; yes, that is certainly also a possibility, and an even worse one - in order to defeat Voldemort, Harry has to die?

[manchester-red.livejournal.com]

In my view Dumbledore's 'please, Severus' was a plea to actually kill him - Severus remains Dumbledore's man but to remain in Voldemort's good books he had to kill Dumbledore. Dumbledore knew all this and also knew that it wasn't his task to defeat Voldemort.

And yes it has occurred to me more than once that Harry is the final Horcrux.