How was the horcrux removed from Harry Potter's body?

Question

I just finished the seventh book, but I'm a bit confused about one aspect of the story: How was the horcrux removed from Harry's body? How did Voldemort destroy the horcrux without killing Harry?

Answer 1

It was a bit tricky. In the end of GoF, when Voldemort regenerated his body, he used Harry's blood, to get around the protection factor his mother's death had given him.

However, we find out that far from removing protection, it effectively double it. By virtue of Harry having a piece of Voldemort's soul and Voldemort carrying Harry's blood, Harry cold be no longer killed by Voldemort while Voldemort lived.

So when Harry gets hit by the killing curse, it takes out the only thing it can--the piece of Voldemort's soul, Effectively, Voldemort does Harry's work for him.

Check out the chapter, King's Cross in DH.

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Answer 2

Okay, the horcrux WAS Harry. When Voldemort killed his parents and tried to kill him, a part of Voldemort's soul went into Harry. At the end of the book, Voldemort kills Harry, but he only kills the part that is the horcrux. So Harry comes back to life and kills Voldemort for good.

Answer 3

Voldemort destroyed his own horcrux (the piece of his soul that was inside Harry), when he shot the killing curse at Harry. Ironically enough it was Voldemort who unknowingly insured that Harry survived. When he had used Harry's blood to recreate his body, he took in the protection that Lily's had sacrifice had casted over Harry against Voldemort. This worked as a tether to keep Harry from plunging completely into the after life.

Answer 4

There wasn't a horcrux in Harry's body...Harry himself was the horcrux. It happened when he killed Harry's mother and tried to kill Harry. Her love protected Harry and turned the curse around on Voldemort. He didn't mean for it to happen, but a part of his "soul" went into Harry, and Harry became a horcrux.
When Voldemort cursed Harry, trying to kill him, the curse really just killed off that part of Voldemorts soul that Harry was carrying around. When Harry chose to go back, instead of dying, he was able to destroy Voldemort because he was the last horcrux, and Voldemort destroyed that one himself.
Its kind of convoluted, but there it is.

Answer 5

voldemort killed a part of himself not harry there was two souls in harry's body trust me i read the book 23 times

Answer 6

voldemort did the killing curse on harry voldemort used the elder wand and it backfired instead of killing harry it killed the part of his soul that was in harry. hope that helps u out

Answer 7

he destroyed the horcrux with avada kedavra.

so a part of Voldemort's soul took the blunt of the attack.

so harry went unconscious

Answer 8

Harry decided that he would die in order to kill Voldemort, instead of letting Voldemort like and killing more of the ones he loves. So when he bravely goes to offer himself to Voldemort, he is killed. BUT, because Harry offered himself selflessly, it allowed the horacrux to be removed, and let Harry be brought back to life.

Answer 9

i bet its because that since harry had the ability to love, he and voldemort were such opposites. o wait, remmeber lily's sacrifice for harry? i guess such sacrifices leave someone's death not in vain. they prevent "useless death". i guess wen harry sacrificed himself for other's it couldn't have been in vain. i got 2 theories at this part;
a) a sacrifice would leave u dying for a purpose, but since harry had a chance to prevent that death, the horcrux was used as harry's sacrifice, because of harry's sacrifice for the good of all
b) since a sacrifice death leaves u to die, but without ur cause of sacrifce in vain, the "sacrifice force" let harry come back to life because it was possible, therefore letting "harry's death not in vain".
try rereading the section wen harry talks to dumbledore wen he's dead. it should clear things up a bit.

Answer 10

Ah but Voldemort did kill Harry...Harry chose to live but had in fact been deceased for a moment.