Still makes no sense. The Horcrux book says that a Horcrux is destroyed when certain forms of irreversible damage are inflicted on the container. An AK is a form of irreversible damage to living beings. So the AK on Harry should have destroyed the Horcrux. If Tom believed he had the means to transfer a soul- bit when its Horcrux is destroyed it would only make sense if he had some other receptacle, already prepared to become the substitute Horcrus. If he was planning to use what he thought was the sword of Gryffindor (but was actually fake) as the replacement Horcrux then he only had access to it after Severus became headmaster. Yet Tom attempted to AK Harry in Godric's Hollow, the cemetary, the DOM, and the 7P air battle before having access to the (fake) sword. (Oh, and in Godric's Hollow again, while the fake sword was in Bella's vault.)
Also, the memory of the first Godric's Hollow attack doesn't show any kind of action that could be seen as preparing to make a Horcrux, he just attacks Harry after killing Lily. He may have had some intended, pre-prepared Horcrux object on him, because Dumbles thought he was going to make a Horcrux after killing Harry, but there is no sign that the attack on Harry was anything other than a direct, run-of-the-mill AK.
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Date: 2012-03-27 09:39 pm (UTC)Also, the memory of the first Godric's Hollow attack doesn't show any kind of action that could be seen as preparing to make a Horcrux, he just attacks Harry after killing Lily. He may have had some intended, pre-prepared Horcrux object on him, because Dumbles thought he was going to make a Horcrux after killing Harry, but there is no sign that the attack on Harry was anything other than a direct, run-of-the-mill AK.