Om en levande Horcrux dödades "normalt", skulle de sluta vara en?

Ja

Jag började skriva en jätte jämförelse mellan Quirrel, Nagini och Harry, men jag tror inte att vi behöver det här.

Hur förstör du en Horcrux?

‘It has to be something so destructive that the Horcrux can’t repair itself. Basilisk venom only has one antidote, and it’s incredibly rare' - 'phoenix tears,’ said Harry, nodding.

Så varför om Harry dog normalt, skulle han inte längre vara en horcrux?

På grund av detta citat från Rowling.

Q: When Harry was stabbed by a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, since he was a Horcrux, shouldn't it have been destroyed then?

JKR: I have been asked that a lot. Harry was exceptionally fortunate in that he had Fawkes. So before he could be destroyed without repair, which is what is necessary to destroy a horcrux, he was mended. However, I made sure that Fawkes wasn't around the second time a Horcrux got stabbed by a basilisk fang, so the poison did its work and it was irreparable within a short period of time.... I established early in the book, Hermione says that you destroy a Horcrux by using something so powerful that there's no remedy. But she does say there is a remedy for basilisk poison but of course it has to be administered immediately and when they stab the cup later - boy I'm really blowing this for anyone who hasn't finished the book - there's Fawkes, is my answer. And thank you for giving me a chance to say that because people have argued that quite a lot.

Så här kommer Harry att bli förstörd omedelbart, och han kommer att dö. Harrys personliga död var den förstörelse som behövdes för att ta bort Voldemorts själsfragment. Hans död, inte närvaron av basilisk gift i hans kropp, som just råkade vara den här speciella dödsorsaken. Hans kropp skulle fortfarande ha varit intakt, så åtminstone för Harry var själen nödvändig för att voldemorts själ skulle förbli fäst.

Nu är vi bara kvar med att spekulera på huruvida de skyddande stavarna på kroppen av en sann levande horcrux blockerar "normal" död. Men eftersom frågan redan antar att de dö en normal död behöver vi inte oroa oss för denna aspekt ytterligare.

Jag tror inte en avskyvärd Avada eller en olycka eller Ebola eller vad som helst skulle ha dött Harry medan han fortfarande hade den åttonde delen av Voldemorts själ inuti honom. Jag inser att det här skiljer sig från din fråga, som specifikt frågar om om Harry hade dödats, men jag tror inte att Harry kunde ha dödats på något sätt medan Voldemort fortfarande levde.

Så länge Voldemort själv levde, kunde Harry inte dö, för Voldemort fästade Harrys liv åt sig själv när han använde Harrys blod (specifikt) i uppståndelsebrytan i Goblet of Fire . De skyddande förtrollningar som flödade genom Harry's blod, via Lily's offer, flyttade nu inom Voldemorts ådror, vilket skapade en ömsesidig, symbiotisk koppling mellan Harry och Voldemort. Från Dödligt Hallows :

‘But if Voldemort used the Killing Curse,’ Harry started again, ‘and nobody died for me this time – how can I be alive?’

‘I think you know,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Think back. Remember what he did, in his ignorance, in his greed and his cruelty.’

[...]

‘He took my blood,’ said Harry.

‘Precisely!’ said Dumbledore. ‘He took your blood and rebuilt his living body with it! Your blood in his veins, Harry, Lily’s protection inside both of you! He tethered you to life while he lives!’

‘I live ... while he lives? But I thought ... I thought it was the other way round! I thought we both had to die? Or is it the same thing?

[...]

‘He took your blood believing it would strengthen him. He took into his body a tiny part of the enchantment your mother laid upon you when she died for you. His body keeps her sacrifice alive, and while that enchantment survives, so do you and so does Voldemort’s one last hope for himself.’

[...]

‘What you must understand, Harry, is that you and Lord Voldemort have journeyed together into realms of magic hitherto unknown and untested. But here is what I think happened, and it is unprecedented, and no wandmaker could, I think, ever have predicted it or explained it to Voldemort.

‘Without meaning to, as you now know, Lord Voldemort doubled the bond between you when he returned to a human form. A part of his soul was still attached to yours, and, thinking to strengthen himself, he took a part of your mother’s sacrifice into himself. If he could only have understood the precise and terrible power of that sacrifice, he would not, perhaps, have dared to touch your blood ... but then, if he had been able to understand, he could not be Lord Voldemort, and might never have murdered at all.'

Deathly Hallows - Pages 567-569 - British Hardcover

Det var bara efter att både den åttonde delen av Voldemorts själ var förstörd och Voldemort själv var död att Harry skulle bli dödlig och sårbar mot döden än en gång. Förklarar detta hur Harry kunde lyckas leva genom att säga att han är förtvivlad eller att ha en tolv ton del av Hogwarts slott faller ovanpå honom medan Voldemort fortfarande levde? Nej. Men detta är vad kanon säger om Harrys dödlighet och mottaglighet för döden i allmänhet. Den åttonde delen av Voldemorts själ inuti Harry måste förstöras av Voldemort själv, så jag tror att svaret på din fråga är nej.

‘So the boy ... the boy must die?’ asked Snape, quite calmly.

‘And Voldemort himself must do it, Severus. That is essential.’

Another long silence. Then Snape said, ‘I thought ... all these years ... that we were protecting him for her. For Lily.’

‘We have protected him because it has been essential to teach him, to raise him, to let him try his strength,’ said Dumbledore, his eyes still tight shut. ‘Meanwhile, the connection between them grows ever stronger, a parasitic growth: sometimes I have thought he suspects it himself. If I know him, he will have arranged matters so that when he does set out to meet his death, it will, truly, mean the end of Voldemort.’

Deathly Hallows - Page 551 - British Hardcover

De livliga horcruxerna i böckerna verkar ha starka skydd - det var därför det tog så mycket ansträngning för våra hjältar att förgöra dem.

Om det inte finns något Guds Ord om saken, tror jag inte att det finns något som omfattas av böckerna om denna möjlighet.