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Sep. 6th, 2005 07:18 pmI don't expect that many people will actually be interested enough to read this all the way through -- it hasn't been tightened up yet and there's a lot of dense, boring scholarship going on. Frankly, I wouldn't read it if I hadn't written it. So, for those of you who actually have a life, let's condense it into the Reader's Digest ten second version.
Put simply, this essay proposes the following: Voldemort did not intend to make Harry into a horcrux (which a careful reading of canon will indicate), but there is canonical evidence that Voldemort went to the Potter house in 1981 intending to make a sixth horcrux. Further, there is enough support in canon to reasonably assume that Harry could have become an accidental sixth horcrux without Voldemort's knowledge.
This is a full-on scholarly study, which means that all quotes and references to canon are cited with page or chapter number. There's one area where I got a little sloppy, but it concerns a section which is mainly conjecture, and is not sloppy with regards to canon itself. Crit and countercitations both welcome.
Yee ha, here we go...
Commentary post-hack: OH SNAP VINDICATED.
( The Case For The Harrcrux )
Put simply, this essay proposes the following: Voldemort did not intend to make Harry into a horcrux (which a careful reading of canon will indicate), but there is canonical evidence that Voldemort went to the Potter house in 1981 intending to make a sixth horcrux. Further, there is enough support in canon to reasonably assume that Harry could have become an accidental sixth horcrux without Voldemort's knowledge.
This is a full-on scholarly study, which means that all quotes and references to canon are cited with page or chapter number. There's one area where I got a little sloppy, but it concerns a section which is mainly conjecture, and is not sloppy with regards to canon itself. Crit and countercitations both welcome.
Yee ha, here we go...
Commentary post-hack: OH SNAP VINDICATED.
( The Case For The Harrcrux )
