Editing Magical objects in Harry Potter (section)

=== Harry Potter ===
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When Voldemort attempted to murder Harry as an infant, he inadvertently sealed a fragment of his soul within him in a manner similar to a Horcrux. Rowling has stated that Harry never became a proper "Dark object" since the Horcrux spell was not cast.<ref name="pottercast166" /> Regardless, as with all Horcruxes, Voldemort would remain immortal so long as his soul fragment remained within Harry.<ref>Rowling, J.K. (2007). ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' (in English). New York City: Scholastic, et al. pp. 686. "And while that fragment of soul, unmissed by Voldemort, remains attached to and protected by Harry, Lord Voldemort cannot die."</ref> That portion of Voldemort's soul is unintentionally destroyed by Voldemort himself in ''Deathly Hallows''.

As a baby, Harry was in the room when Voldemort's fatal Killing Curse backfired. Voldemort's soul had been weakened and destabilised by his continuous murders and the creation of his previous Horcruxes. Harry became a Horcrux when a fragment of Voldemort's soul attached itself to him after the unsuccessful curse. The lightning bolt-shaped scar on Harry's forehead is a direct result of this attempted murder, and the connection that formed as a result is used to explain several important plot points. Throughout the series, Harry is able to receive insight into Voldemort's mental and emotional states, allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the series' primary antagonist. This insight is usually accompanied by pain in the scar on Harry's forehead. Through Voldemort, Harry also inherited many of Voldemort's powers and the ability to speak and understand [[Magic (Harry Potter)#Parseltongue|Parseltongue]]. It is also revealed by Rowling in an interview that Harry's frequent pain in his scar when Voldemort is either active, nearby, or feeling strong emotions, is really the trapped bit of soul yearning to depart from Harry's body and rejoin its master's soul.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080917115036/http://pottercast.the-leaky-cauldron.org/transcript/show/166?ordernum=2 PotterCast 130: The One with JK Rowling Transcript Part 2 (16:09 - 32:17) (Archived copy; original  website no longer valid)] ''web.archive.org copy of pottercast.the-leaky-cauldron.org'', accessed 29 March 2020</ref>

This yearning was one of the reasons why the Killing Curse used by Voldemort on Harry in the Forbidden Forest does destroy the fragment of Voldemort's soul within Harry, but only sends Harry's soul into a near-death state. Harry could return to his body despite being hit by the Killing Curse from the Elder Wand because Voldemort had used Harry's blood to regain his full strength in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', and because the actual master of the Elder Wand, Draco Malfoy, had been defeated by Harry, making Harry the new master of the Elder Wand. Harry's ownership of the wand used for the curse and the Horcrux-like connection between Voldemort and Harry diminished Voldemort's curse and protected Harry from irreversible death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rowling |first=Joanne Kathleen |url=https://archive.org/details/harrypotterdeath00rowl |title=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |date=21 July 2007 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing, plc. |isbn=978-0-545-01022-1 |location=United Kingdom |url-access=registration}}</ref>

While Voldemort did learn of Harry's [[Telepathy|telepathic]] connection, Voldemort was never aware that Harry was inadvertently carrying a fragment of his soul. With this destroyed, the connections between the two were also broken, and Harry never again felt pain in his scar. Rowling revealed Harry has also lost the ability to speak Parseltongue, though he regained the ability to understand it in ''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'' after his scar began to hurt again following the rise of Voldemort and Bellatrix's daughter Delphi whom Harry, his son Albus, and his allies defeated and sent to Azkaban.<ref name="RowlingWeb2007" /> In the epilogue of the last film, the scar has faded to an ordinary-looking scar on Harry's forehead.