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  1. he Augeretis Fons.
  2. J.K Rowling has said that everything in the Harry Potter universe has an opposite, an opposing counterpart to balance it.
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  5. Within Canon, J.K Rowling has made the decision and imparted it to the audience via Hermione's research that the opposite of a Horcrux is simply a complete human soul. However this has never rung true for me because of what the process which creates a Horcrux does. This mysterious and unnamed process divides a human soul so its parts can be hidden. But the opposite of division is not simply maintaining a whole. The true opposite of division is multiplication.
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  8. So in my mind this means there is a second process or set of circumstances under which a soul might be multiplied/magnified/expanded.
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  11. I have called this process The Augeretis Fons (which in bastardised google latin means Well-spring or Fountain of Augmentation or Expansion.)
  12. I know it never appears in canon and even the consummate researcher Hermione can find no mention of it – but what if its existence is practically unknown? What if the circumstances required for it to occur mean that those who participate are either unaware of it happening or simply too ashamed to document it for posterity?
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  15. We know from canon that how you undo a Horcrux is through genuine grief and remorse for your actions. What if we go beyond that? What if that life altering, soul rending grief is superimposed onto a magically charged atmosphere by a powerful witch or wizard? To my mind there are 2 instances in the story in which circumstances are such that The Augeretis Fons may have occurred (and for the purposes of my story, have)
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  18. The occasion of primary importance for my tale is the night Voldemort attempted to kill the infant Harry, which resulted in the death of James and Lily and Voldemort's own disembodiment.
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  21. We know that given his myriad of evil acts and the already fragile state of his soul that Voldemort created an accidental Horcrux in Harry.
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  24. I believe however (although only depicted in the films, not in the novels and thus only semi-canonical, and therefore up for grabs for reinterpretation) that Snape probably did arrive at Godric's Hollow prior to Hagrid.
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  27. The night Lily died the air was already rent and fraught with powerful magics which had been cast and counter cast. What if Snape's heightened emotions and grief at the death of his beloved combined with deepest guilt/remorse all in a magically unstable environment constituted the right circumstances for The Augeretis Fons to occur? A shadow soul born of his self recrimination fleeing its unknowing maker, drawn like a magnet to Harry – who shared both the love and the grief.
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  30. [Once housed in an object (or in the case of Harry, a person) I refer to these extra soul fragments as “Augerites”. I believe they are the origins of so called “lucky” objects.]
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  33. I think this can be borne out by many things we see in canon:
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  36. * Harry hates/fears Snape on sight. Or perhaps that soul fragment made up of Snape's self- loathing that resides within Harry does. Perhaps the arrogance and temper Snape despises
  37. in Harry is his own reflected back to him.
  38. * No matter what evidence to the contrary Harry is offered he cannot bring himself to trust
  39. Snape. Because that extra piece within him will always doubt and mistrust Snape's
  40. judgement and motives – just as Snape doubted himself the night it was created as he
  41. reproached himself for the circumstances of Lily's death.
  42. * Harry often states he felt like Snape could read his mind. Although unaware of its extent perhaps what Harry was feeling was this connection.
  43. * The uncanny similarities Harry and Snape share. We know Harry and Voldemort are linked
  44. by the Harrycrux which explains their similarities but it is often noted there are also a
  45. number of similarities shared with Snape also. They are often likened to the three
  46. brothers. Harry, Snape and Voldemort all have (or had) jet black hair, they are all very
  47. thin/gaunt and had difficult/abusive childhoods. They all share a vicious temper. They are
  48. all powerful wizards. I believe the three are linked through Harry.
  49. * It would explain why The Dementors took an extra interested in Harry Potter. Yes, he had seen tragedy in his life but it seems likely many of the older students who lived through
  50. the first Death Eater War would have also. We are told that murders and disappearances
  51. were daily occurrences at the height of Voldemort's power. It seems to me that a creature
  52. who eats souls would be especially interested in someone with an extra helping (twice
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  54. * Harry is able to remain balanced and unaffected by the Horcrux within because of the
  55. presence of the Augerite. It evokes humility and empathy. I've often heard it questioned
  56. whether the Dursley's were so horrid because they were exposed for so long to the
  57. adverse effects of the Harrycrux. J.K's response has been, no, unlike inanimate horcruxs
  58. those in living beings don't engender negative emotions in those around them (though no
  59. explanation of why that should be so is offered). Or maybe, in Harry's case it is because
  60. Voldemort's wickedness contained in the Harrycrux is counterbalanced by Snape's love for
  61. Lily, the strength of his feelings of sorrow creating sympathy for his fellows.
  62. * Horcruxs and by extension Augerites are hard to destroy. Perhaps it was not only the
  63. Harrycrux which bought Harry the extra time after the Basilisk bite for Fawkes to heal him,
  64. perhaps somewhere in a darkened corridor while the staff searched for the missing Ginny Weasley, Severus Snape lay prone on the floor in the grips of a seizure. Something he and Madam Pomfrey had in the past, and would again, put down to repeated exposure to the cruciatus curse. Was it more than Hermione's quick application of Dittany and the Harrycrux which helped Harry recover from Nagini's bite? And crucially (for my story) if one part of a soul anchors another (Unless destroyed outright) it is the mechanism which means Snape “survived” death. It also means that when Harry is “killed” and the Harrycrux destroyed (the very thing that tethered Harry to this plain) theoretically, he should not have been able to return to his body - except for Snape's soul anchoring him. The killing curse used by Voldemort this time stopped Harry's heart, killing him, but only the part of Voldemort residing in the Harrycrux is actually destroyed because the Elder wand resists being used against its Master. So Harry is free to follow that anchoring thread back to his body.
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  67. The second instance in which I think it likely The Augeretis Fons occurred within the canon narrative is immediately following the death of Ariana Dumbledore.
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  70. Two ambitious, power-hungry wizards engaged in a duel. One dark, one (arguably) less so. The ozone smell of magically charged energy hung thick in the air, when a youthful Aberforth and already magically unstable Ariana were added to the mix it was a recipe for disaster which resulted in the death of Ariana.
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  73. In that instant Albus' heart broke twice over as he relinquished his love for Grindleward and accepted the grief and guilt at his part in Ariana's death. As all those years later with Harry, the resulting Augerite was drawn to Aberforth who shared Albus' love for Ariana (but also blamed Albus for his part in her death).
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  76. Although the evidence for this one is more sketchy (as are the events and characters of Grindleward, Ariana and Aberforth) I think that the abiding estrangement co-mingled with connection remains clear.
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  79. Also, it is generally concluded that the curse upon the resurrection stone would have killed a lesser wizard than Dumbledore outright – but what if it isn't Dumbledore's power or Snape's ministrations which halt/slow its progress to that blasted limb, what if it is the Augerite within Aberforth helping to sustain Albus? What if in that year covered by HBP it isn't just more Horcruxs Dumbledore seeks on his solo missions but information about The Augeretis Fons? What if he realises if he cannot find a way to sever the bond then eventually the curse will consume both he and Aberforth? Obviously to dovetail with Canon he DOES succeed (no, I have NO IDEA how yet! I'm looking forward to Snape and I figuring it out together though!) and in the process begins to suspect what it is that has so inexorably bound Snape and Harry together?
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