My two cents - I didn't like the book as much as numbers 3, 4 and 5. Too many little stupid things (The most irritating of which is a man who was elected Prime Minister not being able to distinquish the difference between the word 'Sirius' and 'Serious') and until the end it wasn't really that interesting.
Anywho, Dumbledore has said it himself. The only thing people fear about Darkness and Death is the unknown. Voldemort does not understand that but obviously Dumbledore does. He isn't scared of death, much like he isn't scared of the darkness.
-Insert previously mentioned posts about Dumbledore pleading for Snape to kill him, not pleading to let him live here-
As for Harry/Dumbledore being a Horcrux... No. Just no. Like Dumbledore said, its risky enough to implant your soul in something like a snake which thinks and acts on its own will. Voldemort would want his 7 pieces seperate
before he began his rise to power the first time. He's obviously superstitious (for want of a better word
) about it as he specifically asked Slughorn if it would be best to have 7 pieces.
The last Horcrux I believe is either the Sword or the Sorting Hat. One can only assume priceless Hogwarts heirlooms like those wouldn't be the sort of thing to only recently be acquired. The sorting hat especially.
We know Voldemort approached Dumbledore about a job teaching defense against the dark arts. We know he hadn't fully seperated his soul into 7 pieces because his appearance hadn't fully changed. A lot of the book was about Non-verbal spells and as Dumbledore said, both he and Voldemort knew that Voldemort wouldn't get that job. Perhaps Voldemort had an alternate motive ? We know his Death-Eaters were near Hogwarts, awaiting his return. Perhaps he had killed and seperated part of his soul unto the Sword or Sorting Hat. Again, trinkets. Though they weren't trinkets of somebody he had killed, neither was the Snake or the Diary. What leads me to believe the Hat has a bigger chance as it represents the seperation of nemesis houses (IE : Gryffindor and Slytherin) rather than Godric's sword which represents Gryffindor. What was stopping Voldemort from completing the final stages of the Horcrux non-verbally whilst in that office ?
Anyways, I'm fishing XP Ok book, didn't like the start and
WHAT THE HECK WAS WITH THE CONSTANT REFERENCES TO SNOGGING ?? SHE'S BLIMMIN' RICH ENOUGH TO BUY A THESAURUS!!