ScarCrux Theory

OK, especially in the mounting excitement of the book 7 release on the 21st of thsi mont there is lots of hot speculations and last minute argumentation going on. Probably the single biggest debated topic (other than maybe Snape, but there are numerous sub-topics in those debates), is whether or not Harry's Scar is a Horcrux. some are quite opposed to the idea, some quite enamored of it. I fall in the latter camp but I have heard a few good arguments here and there of things that might preclude the scar as a Horcrux (have also heard a number to me that really don't seem to hold water, and even the better ones that I have heard aren't conclusive on it being positively precluded, but some of them are pretty decent). So, during some of these "long nights at the wall" on security, when usual study does not stave drowsiness, I sometimes pop OotP out of my bag and read some for a "Fred and George Fix," which usually wakes me up with laughing (the most recent of these is the book 5 instance where they consider using a skiving snack to avaoid Quidditch practice in the rain/storm, but figure Angelina would know what they wer eup to because they had just tried to sell her puking pastils the day before, and they mention the possibility of their new "Fever Fudge" but they haven't figured out how to get rid of the accompanying boils, which, in repsonse to Ron's statement that he sees no boils, they say are in places they usually don't display for the public but which make it a pain sitting on a broom ... that and them taking it in turns to get Zacharias Smith behind his back at the first DA meeting so that every time he opens his mout, before he can get the Expelliarmus spell out, his own wand flies out of his hand ... and last night it was Fed and George in the Hog's Head asking Smith if he wanted his ears cleaned, or any other body part, thay are not particular about where they stick the long "lethal-looking" metal rod George just pulled out of a Zonko's bag ... man I sure hope I am wrong about those two biting it in book 7, I'll really miss them, and our friend Nate told me recently in an email that Fred and George are the faves of his son Elijah). But tonight, I read at the meeting where Hermione introduces the fake galleons, and Harry notes that what they remind him of are the death eaters' dark marks ... on he doesn't call them "marks" - he calls them "scars." So I thought that in combination with noting this occurance of the word scar here, I would recount here my comments from one of the recent posts, on qualities of the dark mark and the use in light of psychic connections (all in light of the fact that a Horcurx is a portion of soul, of a psyche). All of this should be chalked up to trying to provide text support for the reasonableness of the possibility that the scar is a horcrux. Here is the contents of that comment on the graveyard use of the dark-marks on the arms of death eaters: This fits under the connection I made between alchemy and psychology as "sciences of the soul," which is really the best place for this comment because it involves possible soul imagery that, if I am right about the presence of it, possibly connect with the Horcuxes thing, which we all know book 7 will be all about as (as I think Red Hen put it) "Raiders of the Lost Horcruxes.This observation involves Voldy and wandless magic. We know he has a penchant for wandless magic (which I have argued in places is connected to the wand as representative of symbolism and the transcendent in magic) ... the one power remaining to Voldy when he was only vapor and unable to hold a wand was possession, and he notes this very clearly in the Death Eaters chapter (GOF 653, where he specifically notes it as the "only one power" that remained to him). Red Hen and Swythyv were working on a theory of the possible role of possession in the process of making Horcruxes, or at least as Voldy does the deal or had to piece together how to do the deal (note, on GOF 653 Voldy refers to the Horcruxes as his "experiments" - that in the "testing" of being bodyless he discovered that one or more of his "experiments" had worked, since he was not dead and should be) and I think RH and Swv are on a solid path on that (Granger had a post somehwere on the HogPro blog with links to the their stuff). Possession is obviously both a psychic thing and wandless magic. There is another thing though that I picked up in the end of the "Flesh, Blood and Bone" chapter and I will drop that one in a second, as a finale to this comment, but for the present I wanted to give a little bit of context. Lots of speculation has gone on about the relation between the Avada Kedavra curse and Horcruxes. I myself and working on an essay for shopping for paper publication that focusses on the origins of the AK terms and some of Derrida's concepts of language and deconstruction. Where this connects for me with the AK and possession is that my theory of the AK is "possession based" involving the wand as a channel for a form of concentrated momentary psychic possession that is really a violent "psychic invasion" (the "possession" concentrated to such a level that the psychic "presence" of the caster obliterates the presence/existence of the victim, it exerts the caster's presence in the victim's body so forecfully that it excludes the victim's right to presence in their physical body to the level that it shatters the bond between the victim's soul and body ... and that is why, I think, "Moody" says none of the 4th year class would be able to kill him with the AK, they are not yet skilled enough to be able to muster enough of themselves into the curse to do the trick). This is based in theories I have spoken of before on the wand being, in general, a concentrated conduit of the psychic energy of a magically gifted person (a conduit that it takes some time to learn how to direct towards different particular ends, like summoning object, banishing objects, levitating objects etc, which is the whole point of magical education). The AK is, I think, basically this basic psychic tenet of magic taken to a radical and violent extreme of concentration against another person. I suspect that, in the normal run of things, the only way to defend against it is to be willing to kill the invading psyche ... the only way to combat the murder is to commit at least "killing in self defense" (and I think that probably nobody but Voldy and Dumbledore really realizes this, end even if the white-hat wizards did realize, the level of concentration and prediction and intention necesary to pull off such a "blocking kill through killing" defense is so high that it is basically, as I thnk the AK itself is, the psychic/psychological state of full blown mania ... making the AK curse [effectively at least] "inblockable"). But notice I qualified that with "in the normal run of things" ... for there is another option. The only option I can see to "this kill or be killed" line of defense is that of radical self-giving to the level of complete abandonment of self ... love (I take some of this from the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar - VonB spoke of the love of God as "reckless self-giving" like "reckless abandonment." VonB's Christology is based on the cross, and particularly the ultimate suffering on the cross, as what happens when this kind of self-giving love meets a soul that rejects it ... which is really an inverse of what I am saying is the image of the AK curse ... in short, this is all about the answer to one of the classical paradox-conundrums: what happens when an unstoppable force [the self-giving love of God] meets an immovabel object [a soul that rejects that love]? the answer is the crucifixion). This is basically how Lily defended Harry, and it forged a psychic connection Harry's skin to do it. The image I found in the Flesh Blood and Bone is that when Voldy calls the DE's using WT's dark mark, he does not do it, as they have it in the movie, with his wand, but with his finger, a part of his body being animated by his soul (and very wandless magic) ... but also note that he does a verfication on the mark first, noting that it has been growing stronger ... he did not know this yet, he has to verify the psychic connection working, that his getting stronger in soul strength all year has indeed caused the marks to burn again. I think this "experimentation verification" of the dark mark working bears a strong resemblence to the experiment verification of the horcruxes working that happened when Voldy was not killed on the night he attacked baby Harry. I'm not saying I think the dark marks are actual horcruxes or anything crazy like that, but they do have a psychic connection to Voldy like Harry's scar and the horcruxes ... there is something there