Hey Brother!
Jay, the Harry Potter universe
is a very well-crafted one
everything seems just to line up so perfectly.
There are a few little plot holes or especially contrived plot devices here and there
I mean, come on. Time Turners, Liquid Luck, you don't think everyone
and their mom would be trying to brew this stuff on their own.
Oooh, but you had to be especially skilled at potions, Ben!
True, True, but then I still think a certain potions master
may have had some on the ready, just in case a
night may befall him where his loved one was about to be murdered
just, saying
Hashtag always
and now, I'm sad
My point is that on a few occasions Harry quite literally
lucks himself through a situation
But, mostly you can explain it in a way with 'Hey Magic'
I love magic
Quick thought, why, why are there even locks if there is also 'Alohamora'?
Aren't they just kind of doorknobs at that point?
But there is one instance that I don't feel like we got a great explanation for
And, that is when Harry shoots golden flames at Voldemort during the chase scene in the Deathly Hallows
*Intro Intensifies*
Hey Brother!
Gosh, had we not even gotten to the intro yet?
But, seriously Voldemort is right on top of Harry
His plan has worked out magnificently
He was even able to correctly sort out the right Harry out of seven
When all of a sudden, BOOM!
Out of nowhere, and never to be seen again, golden flames to save the day!
Voldemort loses Lucius's - Lucius's, loses, Voldemort loses Lucius's wand.
And Harry gets away with basically no explanation, not even to himself
And then Harry goes on to bring it up over, and over and over again.
I swear it is like Harry is, like, arguing with J.K Rowling for the rest of the book.
Like, 'Hey I'm totally glad I'm alive and all but shouldn't I have totally died earlier?
'That fire didn't really make sense. Was it gold?!'
Eventually, Dumbledore does try to give an explanation in King's Cross
But, It kind of leaves something to be desired.
According to him, the reasons why Harry's wand produced the golden fire is because of when he won the duel with Voldemort,
Back in the graveyard
So, as a result, the wand recognised Voldemort because a bit of his power is in the wand,
but could recognise him as a mortal enemy, so it regurgitated some of his power back at him?
And if you were thinking 'Hmm, I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense..'
I'd tend to agree!
Seriously, here's how complicated it is:
I had to write it down so that I didn't miss anything
So, the twin cores meet and Harry wins, but his wand gets some of Voldemort's power, but not his wand's power ; Voldemort himself's.
But, Voldemort doesn't get Harry's power because he lost the duel, even though Harry wins by literally pushing his wand's power back into Voldemort's
And then when Harry is being chased, his wand recognises Voldemort himself, even though the wand it fought isn't present, just because it fought Voldemort once before three years ago?
Yeah, that's - that's simple.
It is all a little convoluted if you ask me
And even Dumbledore himself admits himself that he doesn't know exactly what happened, this is just a guess.
Which if you ask me is an open invitation for the reader to try and figure out what happened.
And I'm about to RSVP
Here's what I think actually happened:
I think Dumbledore was partially right,
In that Harry's wand was regurgitating some of Voldemort's power
BUT, that power didn't come from the duel in the graveyard
But instead, the night that Harry's parents were murdered
And Harry became a Horcrux
And so during the scene in question,
Acting as a Horcrux does, it defended itself from desctruction
by producing golden fire
Every Horcrux we meet along the way that is given the opportunity to defend itself
does so, mightily
Admittedly, we don't know much about what the diadem or the cup would have done,
But, the diary summons a 100-foot basilisk to fight for it
The venom of which eventually goes onto destroy the majority of the other Horcruxes
So that one, it backfired a little bit.
The ring destroys Dumbledore's hand and would have eventually killed him if Snape had not confined the curse to his hand
SPOILER! Snape kills Dumbledore anyway
The locket drives Ron to hatred and even when he recovers from it and is moments away from destroying it,
It almost convinces him not to.
And Nagini commits a wide array of awful murders.
Although I'm not sure that's as much defence as doing her master's bidding which is her favourite hobby
Which is an actual canon fact on Pottermore
And then we have the piece of soul inside of Harry.
Which uses it's host to produce golden flames in the face of absolute danger.
Would a Horcrux discriminate against who was trying to destroy it, even if it was its creator?
Now if this is the case, there are a few other situations that need explaining.
First, is in the Forbidden Forest, when Voldemort successfully hits Harry with the Killing Curse.
If our theory is true, why wouldn't the Horcux defend itself then?
Well, because even though it's from Voldemort, it is a part of Harry
And, Harry even says himself in King's Cross:
'I should have died, I didn't defend myself, I meant to let him kill me.'
And Dumbledore responds:
'And I that will, I think have made all the difference.'
Exactly, at that point, Harry wanted to die.
Or at the very least, was willing to.
So the Horcrux, accordingly, did not react.
Unlike the chase scene, when Harry very much wanted to survive.
The other situation is in the ministry of magic,
just after Sirius dies.
Harry chases Bellatrix upstairs to attack her, only for Voldemort to show up and bookly hissy fit on how he always ruins his plans
And then attempts to kill Harry.
By killing him, I mean successfully aiming the killing curse at him, Harry has his wand in hand and cannot react fast enough to defend himself.
*Spoilers* Dumbledore saves him.
BUT, here's the thing, if it was the wand itself recognising and reacting to Voldemort in the chase scene,
Why doesn't it react here?
Because, it wasn't the wand, it was the Horcrux.
Oh but Ben, then why didn't the Horcrux try to defend itself then?
Because, just before Voldemort attacks, Bellatrix reminds everyone that Dumbledore has just arrived in the building.
And, as I just said, the piece of Voldemort's soul in Harry, is also a part of Harry, and Harry trusts Dumbledore.
Just Harry knowing that Dumbledore is there is enough to prevent that Horcrux from feeling like it is in mortal danger.
Even if it's only on a subconscious level.
So, In conclusion, how did Harry's wand produce the golden flames?
Our theory is that it is because Harry is a Horcrux.
And by design, Horcruxes will defend themselves in mortal danger.
Even if that mortal danger is being presented by the person who created that Horcrux.
Guys for my question of the day, what do you think?
Do you prefer this explanation for the mysterious golden flames?
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