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

[xerox78.livejournal.com]

4. Rowling's antics in Portugal in regards to the guy she eventually married sound severely neurotic, bordering on psychotic.

Did they happen to include an account of her crying and throwing things from a 2nd+ story window or balcony down at her ex, who was standing on the ground? If so, then I read an article about that a few years back and that incident is the only thing I remember about it.

[majorjune.livejournal.com]

Did they happen to include an account of her crying and throwing things from a 2nd+ story window or balcony down at her ex, who was standing on the ground? If so, then I read an article about that a few years back and that incident is the only thing I remember about it.

What I read was pretty similar.

Basically what I read were quotes from coworkers who witnessed the melodrama between Jo and Jorge, very often right at the school in front of students, or at the cafe immediately across the street from the school where Jo taught, again often in view of students.

I can't remember anything about Jo throwing things out a window, but everyone remembered one incident where Jorge started beating Jo up at the cafe, her coworkers separated them, some dragging Jo across the street to the school while others restrained Jorge. Police arrived, and as Jorge was being hauled off, Jo had to be pulled back from an upperstory window of the school as she leaned out a perilous distance, hysterically crying out "Jorge! I love you, Jorge!" as the police dragged him off to the pokey...

[xerox78.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is the article you read, but this (http://news.scotsman.com/jkrowlingharrypotter/The-JK-Rowling-story.2436228.jp) is the one I read, which has a similar account of the incident you described.