you knew this was coming
[misc]
posted by tom / July 30, 2005 / 
The inevitable Tom-just-finished-HBP Harry Potter thread. Hopefully someone else has the patience for it. So, what I came away with (packed to the brim with spoilers):
UPDATE: Sorry for not having it behind the cut. I counted on the <spoiler> tag working, but I guess those of you with funky CSS implementations or reading this through RSS might've had something revealed. Sorry about that.
Harry is a Horcrux. Between the pain Voldemort has when entering his mind, and the rest of the vague connections -- yeah. It just seems like a gimme. Snape was bound to Dumbledore by an unbreakable oath, constructed according to a sneaky logical proposition that allowed him to both fulfill D's wishes and aid Draco without breaking his vow to either. This is why Dumbledore trusted him. The unbreakable oath related to Draco is basically irrelevant to the plot (aside from providing a nice opening piece). It's there to teach us what unbreakable oaths are. Dumbledore wanted specifically to be killed by Snape, not Draco. This may be related to the mystery potion he drank in the cave (he begged Harry to kill him then, too). But, more generally... Dumbledore's death parallels Harry's childhood encounter with Voldemort, and embodies D's "stupid-ass love is greater than Awesome Dark Magic" philosophy. Remember all of Dumbledore's poo-pooing of Voldemort's accomplishments, in the memories presented in this book? I think there is a complementary technique to the Horcrux -- one that's considerably shinier and happier -- and it's one that was performed by Snape when he killed Dumbledore (and the one he was bitching about having to do), and one that spontaneously happened between Lilly and Harry when Voldemort capped the elder Potters. Instead of a split soul, it binds a soul to someone else's. Exactly what this accomplishes remains to be seen, but no doubt it's warm and fuzzy and nonspecific, somewhere between "they'll always be with you if you remember them" and glowing dead Jedi masters. Snape's carrying around a part or all of Dumbledore's soul. Hogwarts: Thunderdome? I'm on board, but instead I suspect we'll get taken on a whirlwind tour of virtually every past location, plus a couple new ones. I doubt the action will center on Hogwarts, although the climax seems likely to (the occuppied castle is a tempting idea).
There! End wild theorizing. Oh, and Jeff is ugly, and Kanishka can't read. Eat it, suckers.
Comments
Ack! Move the spoilers below the cut, please! Some of us are still reading!
OK, I just realized what happened -- you were trying to be fancy with blacked-out spoiler text. It's working in Firefox but NOT in IE (which is how I saw all of the spoilers).
d'oh... sorry about that. I wonder why it isn't working in IE? I'll go investigate.
another addendum to the theorizing:
I disagree.I take it you think it's implausible because Voldemort is repelled by Harry's presence? I think there are ways to justify that. Perhaps he can't stand being reunited with pieces of his soul after severing them. Maybe it's been transformed by Lilly's love for her son. I donno. There are lots of ways to explain it away. I don't think Voldemort would have intentionally made him a horcrux, thoug... definitely not.
didn't v try to kill harry at the end of GOF?
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