Questions regarding the Harrycrux

[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

“While the magical container is still intact, the bit of soul inside it can flit in and out of someone if they get too close to the object. I don’t mean holding it for too long…. I mean close emotionally…. You’re in trouble if you get too fond of or dependent on the Horcrux.”

(Hermione regurgitating Dumbledore’s books, DH p. 103)

So why were Hermione, and Ron, and Hagrid, and Mrs. Weasley, never “in trouble”?

Why was the Harrycrux not subject to that particular effect?

And how did Dumbledore know it wouldn’t be?


In theory, anyone close to Harry emotionally ought to have been vulnerable to possession by Tom Riddle.

But in canon this didn’t ever happen.

And, presumably, the Twinkly One expected this not to happen.

Otherwise, letting Harry wander among Hogwarts students making friends was the utter height of irresponsibility. (Okay, comparable to the headmaster’s other heights of irresponsibility, but still….)

I tried to float a theory on my own lj that Dumbles HAD expected that people who loved Harry might be possessed by his Horcrux, had therefore arranged magically to reinforce Harry’s canon early (pre-Hogwarts) friendlessness, and had further arranged that Harry’s first friends in the WW be disposable Dumbles-followers (Hagrid, the youngest Weasley scion). I’d even suggested that the events of CoS seemed at first to Dumbles as indications that the soul-fragment inside Harry had flitted out to possess one of the Weasleys, after Harry spent much of the summer there.

But that theory was shot down.

So why was the Harrycrux different from every other Horcrux known in this particular crucial respect (non-flittiness of the soul-fragment), and how did Dumbles know it was?

Or did our omniscient headmaster overlook that danger, and just luck out that the Harrycrux happened to be different?

Ol’ “Power of Love,” after all, is himself so lacking in normal emotional affect that it’s credible that it might simply not occur to him that normal people do become fond of each other, and that this emotional state (when Harry is the object) is precisely the condition which, in theory, should allow Tom’s soul-fragment to possess the fond third party.

Comments

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

I'm just a bit of the oppinion that Albus considered Harry enough of an unknown quantity (or quality) that he simply wanted to place him somewhere outside the ww, and set a watcher who would alert him if all hell seemed to be breaking loose.

That his watcher was someone who couldn't magically defend herself if it did, is pretty much typical of Albus. But then, I doubt he had a lot of fanboys or fangirls who would be able to pass in a muggle neighborhood. Let alone do it while holding down a job inside the ww. Mrs Figg may have been the best on offer.

[oryx_leucoryx]

Albus mentions her as part of the old crowd at the end of GOF, as though she was an Order member Sirius should know from the war days (ie before his arrest). I wonder what she did before she was assigned to watch over Harry.

I also wonder what magical dirty tricks were used to get her relocated to the right part of Little Whinging just in time. Or if any kind of magical influence was needed to allow her to keep that many cats at a time.

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

Acto Rowling (in some interview I think, so no evidence in any direction) Arabella was not just the local cat lady, she was breeding cat/Kneezle crosses and making a living from it. So she may have had some kind of licence for the cats. Legitimate or magically forged I wouldn't care to say.

But then, like I say, there is no evidence for it in the text. Strikes me as sort of a piece of "irrational symetry" to have Mrs Figg the cat breeder positioned against Aunt Marge the dog breeder. Harry doesn't particularly care for either of them, which really ought to have tipped us off about what an emotionally stunted and unloving little sod he really is. Mrs Figg may have been warned against letting the boy get too fond of her (or of getting too fond of him) but you would think that being sent off to a household where he had an adult's attention and wasn't being ordered to do all the work would have been something to look forward to.