Deathly Hallows Predictions & Clues pg 10

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1Hallows = Horcruxes	2Privet Drive to Grimmauld Place	3The Identity of R.A.B.	4Snape's Loyalty & Patronus	5New Leadership: Lupin and Krum
6Wormtail the im-Percy-nator	7All about Godric's Hollow	8St. Mungo's & the Longbottoms	9Werewolf Games	10Harry the Horcrux
11Death and Romance	12Lily's Eyes, Harry's Eyes	13Ginnymented: the Final Battle	%Complete List with Probability	&Leftovers

Harry is a Horcrux

Dumbledore never said Nagini was a Horcrux because Nagini is not. Instead, Dumbledore was trying very hard to lead Harry to a painful and disturbing conclusion. Why else did Dumbledore interrupt himself to talk about Voldemort's intent at Godric's Hollow?

The entire series is packed with Harrycrux clues.

In CoS 18, Harry says, "Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Given that Voldemort's brain and magical powers remain intact, that "bit" can only be a soul fragment.

Shortly after a Horcrux is defined as an object filled with part of someone's soul, we get this line from Trelawney:

"I miss having you in my classes, Harry," she said soulfully as they set off together. "You were never much of a Seer... but you were a wonderful Object."
(HBP 25)
In HBP 23, Dumbledore insists that Voldemort went to Godric's Hollow with a six-part soul. He later says the "seventh part" of Voldemort's soul is what departed from Godric's Hollow. A part got left behind.

The Scar
A fragment of soul carries thoughts. This allowed Dumbledore to identify the diary as a Horcrux:

"A mere memory, starting to act and think for itself?"
(HBP 23 pg 500)

Then we just have to read backwards for this little clue:

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else
(OotP 38)

And now we know why Harry's scar doesn't go away.

The Dark Lord figures it out... Eventually
Voldemort didn't know he'd ripped his soul and made Harry a Horcrux, but he should have:

"My curse was deflected... and it rebounded upon myself.... I was ripped from my body..."(GoF 33 pg 653)

So he kept trying to kill Harry, right up to the moment he Possessed Harry in the Ministry Atrium (OotP 36). This made Voldemort suspicious. He then carried out the "particularly significant" murder of Amelia Bones, tried to make a sixth Horcrux, and failed. Now he knows. Now the Death Eaters have been ordered not to kill Harry.

Eyes are the Windows to the Soul

This is an old proverb, but Rowling makes obvious use of it with descriptions like this, a recently-dead Diggory (a soulless corpse):

...Harry stared into Cedric's face, at his open gray eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth...
(GoF 32 pg 638)

When a Dementor sucks out somebody's soul, it goes for the soul's doorway: i.e., the mouth. Note how this gives meaning to the shape of the Dark Mark: The snake emerging from the skull represents Voldemort coughing up a bit of his soul to make a Horcrux.

More importantly, it explains Harry's visions of Voldemort.

In the process of normal Legilimency, one attempts to "extract feelings and memories." These are features of the soul, so it's a good idea to look through the windows by making eye contact:

The arrows show the path of information from Harry's soul, through his eyes/windows, through Snape's windows, and to Snape's soul (it has to end out there because Snape remembers what he saw in Harry).

When Tonks learns about Harry's visions, she makes this comment:

"There isn't any Seer blood in your family, is there?"....

"I mean, you're not seeing the future, you're seeing the present....It's odd, isn't it?"
(OotP 22 pg 482)

This is a clever bit of misdirection. Tonks is comparing it to Seer ability, when really we should be comparing it to Legilimency. But it's also a clue, because even as a type of Legilimency it's very odd.

Knowing that Harry is a Horcrux, we can observe that the process is very similar but wired backwards:

Here, the information flows through Voldemort's eyes, Voldemort's soul, the soul fragment, and then to Harry's soul. At that point, Harry experiences it as if he were seeing it himself -- hence the last step to Harry's eyes. Observe that Harry only has these visions when his own eyes are closed (usually while sleeping).

And there is our explanation for Harry's inability to read Voldemort's memories despite brilliantly clear visions. The soul, which houses memories, is not the endpoint of the information flow. It is merely a conduit.

The above diagram shows how it works after Voldemort was resurrected, with Harry experiencing things directly from Voldemort's point of view.

"I was You-Know-Who," said Harry...
(OotP 26 pg 586)

This perspective is immensely important. Before and after Voldemort's resurrection, it is the first thing Dumbledore asks about when he learns that Harry has a vision:

"Harry -- did you see Voldemort?"
(GoF 30 pg 601)

"Were you perhaps standing beside the victim, or else looking down on the scene from above?"
(OotP 22 pg 468)

If you haven't noticed, the perspective is different before Voldemort's resurrection. In the "Babymort" stage, Harry doesn't see through Voldemort's eyes. He sees things from off-center; from beside or (usually) behind Babymort.

That's because Babymort doesn't see out of his eyes.

It was as though Wormtail had flipped over a stone and revealed something ugly, slimy, and blind...
(GoF 32 pg 640)

So the information flow looks like this:

We even have confirmation that, however Babymort sees things, it isn't through the eyes. Here, he pulls a blind Cruciatus Curse on Wormtail:

The tip of a wand emerged from around the back of the chair. It was pointing at Wormtail. "Crucio!"
(GoF 29)

How can ONE person use a TWO-way Mirror?
By having a little bit of the Dark Lord inside. In OotP 38 (pg 858), Harry makes eye contact with himself:

...the eyes blinking back at him through the fog were definitely his own.

And so he is able to speak directly to the soul fragment, his little inner voice:

Sirius didn't have his mirror on him when he went through the archway, said a small voice in Harry's head.

Thus Sirius's half of the two-way mirror will be useful, even though Harry's half has been shattered.

Harry is a Legilimens

We're told that a good Legilimens can tell when people are lying. One of Harry's first usages of the skill is to confirm Sirius Black's honesty:

He looked at Harry, who did not look away.

"Believe me...I never betrayed James and Lily...."

And at long last, Harry believed him.
(PoA 19)

Harry finally believed him. Note the eye contact. That also tells us how someone can lie to Harry and get away with it -- by avoiding eye contact:

"It's the Potter boy's head in the fire," Kreacher informed the empty kitchen, stealing furtive, oddly triumphant glances at Harry....

Kreacher stopped in his tracks. Harry could just make out the back of his bald head...
(OotP 32 pg 740-741)

During Occlumency lessons, Harry got a good glimpse of Snape's memories:

and suddenly Harry's mind was teeming with memories that were not his
(OotP 26)

A few months later, he blatantly cheated on his History O.W.L. by Legilmensing an answer out of Parvati Patil:

He gazed blankly at the back of Parvati's head again. If he could only perform Legilimency and open a window in the back of her head and see what it was about trolls...

Harry closed his eyes and buried his face in his hands, so that the glowing red of his eyelids grew dark and cool. Bonaccord had wanted to stop troll hunting... That was it.
(OotP 31)

He is able to do this without eye contact partly because, I would guess, Parvati is thinking very hard about Bonaccord and trolls. In addition, Harry visualizes a "substitute" window in the back of Parvati's head. That's quite a trick, but don't forget where Harry gets the ability: from Voldemort. The "red eyes" are another clue to confirm this.

Although Harry's had the soul fragment since the age of one, Legilimency didn't develop much until he was about fifteen. Again, we just have to remember where the skill comes from. When Tom Riddle was eleven, he couldn't do Legilimency yet. That's why he didn't believe Dumbledore when Dumbledore told the truth. That's why he relied on another technique (some form of compulsion) and ordered Dumbledore to "Tell the truth!" (HBP 13).