WOW that link is AWESOME. For Rowling to take the time and answer all that is amazing; I just love her.

Yeah, that's an amazing thing. Thanks so much for linking to that, Moonliner.

You just know it's been killing her for years not being able to talk about all this stuff. I expect we'll see/hear a lot more from JK in the next few months.

If I were her I'd just make up answers every time a question is asked and then cackle has the internet tries to reconcile the inconsistencies.

The biggest Harry Potter fan is Rowling herself. :)

Harry was a Horcrux.

A horcrux can only be destroyed by extreme magical stuff.

So was Harry essentially invulnerable for the first 6 and 9/10 books?

Why was the Horcrux in Harry not destroyed when he got Basilisk bit?

I don't have the book in front of me, but something about the way the whole "Voldy's soul inside Harry" thing made me think that he wasn't quite a horcrux. I seem to recall thinking that there was some crucial difference between him and horcrux.

I don't know if a "mistake horcrux" works any differently than a puposeful one. The fact that he was bitten by a basilisk kinda blows it, unless it's the scar itself that needs to be bitten...

I suppose you could argue that Harry would have to die in order to destroy the horcrux but since the phoenix healed Harry the Horcrux was also healed.

That's what I was thinking. That since Harry lived so did the horcrux.