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Sorry, this post isn't really about the Half-Blood prince, it's more about the whole series, though I think the Half-blood prince is relative to it.
Ok, so I sat down and really really thought about the whole picture the books are trying to paint here. JKR said in one of her interviews that instead of wondering why Harry lived, we should be wondering why Voldy didn't die. If the Aveda Kadavera really backfired, shouldn't he be dead? And JKR said the second thing we should be wondering is why that in OofP (all these acronyms for the books are confusing!) when Dumbledore had the chance to kill Voldy toward the end, he didn't. Why?
I know that I said the idea of Harry being a horcrux didn't hold water-- it doesn't because Voldy keeps trying to kill him. But what if something accidently happened when Voldy originally tried to kill him and accidently put a bit of his soul into Harry? It would explain why Voldy didn't die when the Aveda Kadavera backfired, and if Dumbledore had the slightest inkling that Harry might be a horcrux, he would have known that he wouldn't be able to destroy Voldy merely by killing the body he was in, if his soul was in several different places. And what if Voldy keeps trying to kill Harry because he doesn't know that Harry is part of him?
It's a very strange idea, but that might be the kind of plot twist JKR could go for. But I still maintain the idea that she can't kill off Harry, so that couldn't work. It will be very interesting to see what happens.
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