The 8th Horcrux: The Scar and Last Things

Ok, so I have been arguing for the scar as horcrux. This post is something that really got my brain buzzing when it came to me, but it is not an argument per se for the scar as horcrux. It is simply an attempt to delve into the numerological symbol of Theology that the works open the doorway for and explain how I think the scar being a horcrux would fit really well with what is already going on in the text of Rowling, in part because it goes on in the world that stands behind her thought, especially because she would have studied that world as a classics major in college. The 7th and 8th Days Most know that in the Genesis creation account (chapters 1 and 2) the 7th day is the Sabbath. It is not as commonly recognized, though, that the Sabbath is particularly within the created order and thus destined to be transcended in the Eschaton (Heaven and our participation in Eternity), and that this is foreshadowed in the Old Testament by the fact that circumcision is on the 8th day and that circumcision is fulfilled in Baptism (which St Paul speaks of as a circumcision of the heart, following the language of the last chapters of Deuteronomy). It is also not too well known, outside of the circles of us academic nerds LOL, that St. Augustine waged within his own mind a great debate near the end of his life/"career" over whether the Eschaton was, symbolically, the 7th or 8th day (I think it is the latter ... but the issue is more complicated than it seems on the surface.) The core idea he used of seeing world/Salvation History as a 7 stage process was picked up later by St. Bonaventure. The key thing for our purposes here is that the number 7 is the number of perfection, but perfection in creation - although even that perfection cannot be reached without the Transcendent. But the fullness of that transcendence is properly the 8th day, the 8th age of the world that completely transcends all other ages, but (from this side of the veil) informs the very being of those ages. The 8th Horcrux Anyway, I'm just going to throw a suggestion out there on the table. I suggest Voldemort did create 6 Horcruxes, with his original self as the 7th. Here I'll offer my only attempt at "evidence," and it is by no means conclusive. But I think the way he talks to his death eaters in the graveyard in GoF, at least sounds to me, when he speaks of "you all knew the measures I took long ago to protect myself against death!", like he actually got 7 total horcruxes including his original self. Of course, one horcrux could have protected against death, but it just seems to me like there is something in his voice like he got everything accomplished he wanted to in that regard, ie 7 HCs (of course it could just be wishful thinking on my part LOL). One interesting aspect here is that his original self is not the 7th, but the first - there is something seminal here. I cannot pin it all down yet in my mind but it is very similar to the fact that in the Greek of the Septuagint text of Genesis 1:5, it does not say "the first day," it says "the one day" (the word mia, not the word protei) ... Voldemort's original self as the "first" horcrux is seminal, it is the one for which all the others exist and they are not equal to it for him. The Irony is that that is how he transgressed, he worshipped that "one" and for it's sake became more than "one," more than a singular, whole and healthy person. My main theory here, though, is that he already had 7 HCs when he went in to kill Harry. And then he accidentally created another ... an 8th one, one that opened him to the transcendent - and that was what undid him. That 8th horcrux was on another person, and it is the mystery of the human person (especially in the Incarnation) that always undoes heresies and sorceries. For this to be part of Rowling's thought, however' does not mean that she necessarily has all that I have said here in mind (but ... and I have said this a million times and will keep saying it, tipping my hat to her ... she may, she is a pretty bright person, you know) - her thought could be (if she is thinking along these lines at all) simply, "Voldemort undid himself by opening himself to going too far - he wanted to stop at 7 ... but he couldn't. In trying to hold onto himself this way, he slid himself right into something much larger than himself." Just a thought :)