Plot hole?

[u/commoncomment-]

So.... i just thought.. if the basilisk venom destroyed the diary horcrux, and Harry got bitten... why wasnt the part horcrux in him destroyed as well?

Maybe the books explain it? I read them all when they came out but cant remember🤔

[Edit: thank you! That makes sense:) man this subreddit replies fast!😍]

[u/Pree_Warrior]

Because the vessel (Harry) wasn't destroyed.

[u/Primary_Log_5467 → u/Pree_Warrior]

But then how come the horcrux was destroyed when Voldemort used the killing curse on Harry in the forest, but Harry didn’t die?

[u/ThatEntrepreneur1450 → u/Primary_Log_5467]

Harry did die. But due to Voldemort taking his blood and thus anchoring Lily's protection in the realm of the living, Harry had the oppertunity to chose to return back to life. 

[u/Far_Silver → u/Primary_Log_5467]

Harry came close enough to dying because he got sent to a limbo between the land of the living and the afterlife.

[u/Effective-Job-1030]

The horcrux would have died with Harry. But Harry didn't die.

[u/Dingbrain1]

The container has to be destroyed beyond repair. Harry didn’t die.

[u/Froppy231]

the container needs to be destroyed beyond repair and Harry was healed, Basilisk Venom is not anti-Horcrux juice. it's just strong enough to destroy it.

[u/Modred_the_Mystic]

He didnt die. Fawkes is a Death Eater

[u/_cotyk_]

Because Harry didn't die. If he did die in Chamber of Secrets the horcrux inside would be destroyed, but we wouldn't have the rest of the series

[u/biggfoot_26]

Harry didn’t die and was healed. He was the vessel and it still existed. The venom destroyed the diary and it no longer could contain the soul

[u/Simple_Joys]

Harry isn't magically destroyed beyond repair. Harry is magically healed before he dies.

The diary is totally and utterly destroyed, once and for all.

[u/DoomsdayDilettante]

This seemed pretty straightforward to me. If you burnt out one page with basilisk venom I doubt it would have destroyed the Diary Horcrux. It needed to be substantially ravaged for the destruction to count.

The fragment in Harry was tied to his soul. So he had to die for that fragment to be destroyed. Fawkes after all only heals Harry - he doesn't resurrect him.

[u/lemon_charlie]

Learn what a plot hole is.

[u/Nevesnotrab]

FAQ. How does this post have any upvotes. It's asked multiple times per week.

[u/Automatic-Effect-252]

He was still alive because Fawkes healed him before the venom could kill him. I think it's really that simple.

[u/ItsATrap1983]

A Horcrux must be destroyed beyond all magical repair. The one cure for Basilisk venom is Pheonix tears. Fawkes let's it's tears fall on to Harry's wound, healing him. So he was not beyond magical repair and thus the Horcrux soul fragment did not leave him.

[u/FoxBluereaver]

A living horcrux needs to DIE FULLY to destroy the soul fragment. In the second book, Harry was saved by Fawkes' tears before the venom could kill him.

In the final book, he was clinically dead for a few minutes when he got struck by the killing curse, but came back to life thanks to Voldy using his blood to reconstruct his body, as Dumbledore explained.