Today, I learned five separate bits of information relating to Harry being a 'you-know-what' of You-Know-Who.

Horcrux. I dunno, do people browse this place who haven't finished the books? I should hope not. Anyway....

• The Sorting Hat considered Harry for Slytherin because it was picking up on Voldemort's soul inside Harry. Not meaning to offend the boy, but aside from resourcefulness and a willingness to break the rules, Harry doesn't have ANY Slytherin qualities. Remember, it's what you choose....

• This passage, from Chamber of Secrets. "Harry couldn't explain, even to himself, why he didn't just throw Riddle's diary away. [...] And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and half-forgotten. But this was absurd." And this one; Harry: "Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Dumbledore: "It certainly seems so."

• When the Dementors draw close to Harry, he doesn't hear his mother dying in his head because that's his worst memory. He was a baby; he doesn't even HAVE that memory. He's actually hearing VOLDEMORT's worst memory, the night he "died". Voldemort's soul is also the reason why Dementors typically seem to go straight FOR Harry in group situations and why they affect him so much. He's like a two-for-one dinner.

• The Goblet of Fire is supposed to be infallible. Perhaps then, the real reason Harry's name was successfully entered, (though neither fake-Moody nor Voldemort knew it,) was because part of Harry WAS over 17....

• When Professor Trelawney predicts that Harry must surely have been born in midwinter, to which he replies he was born in July, she was right. She was just detecting the Horcrux unbeknownst to her. Voldemort's birthday is the 31st of December, 1926.