What if Voldemort knew Harry was a Horcrux?

If Voldemort knew Harry was a horcrux he probably would've either convinced Harry to become a Death Eater or torture him into insanity, *Longbottom style*, so he wouldn't kill off a piece of his soul, but could keep Harry to a point where he wasn't a liability to his immortality.
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Did Voldemort know Harry was destroying Horcruxes?

Hermione, Ron, and Dumbledore all knew that they were destroying Horcruxes, which was exactly what they were trying to do. The books previously established that Voldemort can't feel when a Horcrux is destroyed. However, this was completely reversed in the movies.
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Did Harry survive because he was Horcrux?

There is no Horcrux in Harry, Harry is the Horcrux. Harry survived because Voldemort took his blood in GoF. His blood contains Lily's Sacrificial Protection. As some of it lived on, in Voldemort, Harry was tethered to life.
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What did Voldemort think was the 7th Horcrux?

So after his remaining soul fragment went from body to body, in 1994 he was made a homunculus by Pettigrew (rudimentary body like a baby). After in that baby form, the same year, he found Nagini and made her a horcrux. He thought it was the 6th, when actually it was the 7th. Finally splitting his soul into 8.
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How did Voldemort kill the Horcrux but not Harry?

Voldemort didn't know that Harry was his seventh horcrux. He cast a spell on Harry, intending to kill him but instead killed the seventh horcrux, which was the last part of his soul so Voldemort dies before he can actually kill Harry. It killed the horcrux, not him.
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What If Voldemort Discovered Harry Was A Horcrux?



How did Harry survive Avada Kedavra in the forest?

Voldemort intentionally made six Horcruxes, but when he used Avada Kedavra on Harry, he unintentionally created a seventh Horcrux. Instead of dying, Lily's love for Harry created a counter 'curse' known as Sacrificial Protection and saved Harry.
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Why could Voldemort touch Harry?

In the graveyard in the Goblet of Fire, Voldemort was able to freely touch Harry without harm once he possessed Harry's blood (which contained Lily's sacrificial protection).
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Why didn't Voldemort realize Harry was a Horcrux?

Voldemort wasn't aware of Harry being a pseudo-horcrux because he didn't plan it, and Harry didn't know either until Voldemort “killed” him, but he actually killed the piece of soul kept in him.
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What are the 8 Horcruxes?

This is the definitive ranking of Voldemort's Horcruxes, from least to most effective.
  • Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem. ...
  • Helga Hufflepuff's cup. ...
  • Salazar Slytherin's locket. ...
  • Tom Riddle's diary. ...
  • Harry Potter. ...
  • Marvolo Gaunt's ring. ...
  • Nagini.
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Did Hermione know Harry was a Horcrux?

People have taken this, together with this scene where Harry says "I think I've known for a while, and I think you have too," to mean that Hermione realised that Harry was a horcrux (okay, not a horcrux but let's call him that for simplicity's sake).
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How did Harry survive if he dropped the Resurrection Stone?

Harry is able to "defeat" death another way: After fighting with Voldemort in the forest and being killed by the dark Wizard, Harry doesn't really die, but he is resurrected truly as himself, and not a shadow of who he was previously.
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How did Voldemort survive without a body?

We all know that little Harry Potter became the first, and so far only, wizard to ever survive a killing curse. We also know that Lord Voldemort unintentionally transformed Harry into one of his Horcruxes. Furthermore, we know that Voldemort survived that night because of the existing Horcruxes he had already created.
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Why did the Elder Wand not work for Voldemort?

Voldemort did not win The Elder Wand from its rightful owner (Dumbledore) - he got it from his grave. Draco Malfoy was supposed to be its rightful owner, as he had disarmed Dumbledore holding it (but did not claim it). But Draco was defeated by Harry, so the wand chose Harry and was reluctant to serve Voldemort.
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Is Professor Quirrell a Horcrux?

Quirrell is, in effect, turned into a temporary Horcrux by Voldemort. He is greatly depleted by the physical strain of fighting the far stronger, evil soul inside him.
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Can a Horcrux be reversed?

The creation of a Horcrux can be reversed by its creator by truly feeling remorse, though the effects of this can apparently be painful to the point of being fatal.
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Are there 7 or 8 Horcruxes?

Yeah. There were 8 horcruxes. 7 were made by Voldemort intentionally ( Nagini, goblet, diary, locket, ring, diadem and the part of his soul in Voldemort himself) and 1 was made accidentally which was Harry.
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Why does a Basilisk fang destroy Horcruxes?

After being healed, Harry took the fang and stabbed Riddle's diary, destroying that Horcrux beyond magical repair. Because Harry had stabbed the Basilisk with the sword, it was imbued with Basilisk venom, and was therefore able to destroy Horcruxes as well.
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Who knew Harry was a Horcrux?

It would also explain why Snape saved Harry's life in the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,45 and why he tried to save it again in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:46 As long as Harry was alive and Snape was the only one who knew Harry was a Horcrux, Snape would have leverage over Voldemort if ever ...
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What was the last Horcrux?

Nagini is the last horcrux that Voldemort created and the last one to be destroyed. During the final battle of Hogwarts, Neville pulls the sword of Godric Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and beheads Nagini, destroying the last horcrux.
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Does Snape know about Horcruxes?

Nothing about Harry being a Horcrux, or Nagini being a Horcrux, or Voldemort having Horcruxes at all. Snape did not know and Dumbledore tried to phrase everything the way it would not specify the kind of magic.
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How did Voldemort not know Narcissa was lying?

So as long as Narcissa hadn't made eye contact with Voldemort while announcing Harry's death, Voldemort would likely not have been able to tell that she was lying. Of course, if he really wanted to he could have forced her to make eye contact and then asked her again.
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How did Dumbledore destroy the ring?

July 1996: Albus Dumbledore destroys Marvolo Gaunt's ring with Godric Gryffindor's sword in his headmaster's office at Hogwarts.
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Why was using Harrys blood a mistake?

The use of Harry's blood in the potion, however, would come to be a mistake as it prevented Voldemort from killing Harry because the blood passed Lily Potter's protection to Voldemort and anchored Harry to the living world through him, ensuring the Dark Lord's defeat three years later.
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Why did Voldemort's killing curse rebound?

Voldemort's Killing Curse rebounded on this occasion because he was attempting to use a wand against its proper owner.
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Why did Harry survive as a baby?

Lily Potter sacrificed her life in order to protect her infant son, Harry from Lord Voldemort. This placed Harry under magical protection, so that when Voldemort cast the Killing Curse at Harry in turn, the spell backfired, leaving him unharmed (save for a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead) and Voldemort bodiless.
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