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Why didn't Voldemort realize that Harry had a part of his soul?


I mean it's stupid right? He even controlled possessed him in the 5th book briefly. He would surely realize that the sensation or whatever he felt and did while controlling Nagini was the same.



Answer



It was not the same. Harry is not a Horcrux. For my own explanation of it, look here, although if it's unclear I can restate it here. The controlling of Nagini and Harry were different things (in fact, he didn't control Harry, he just influenced him.) His soul can comment


To answer your question though, there are two possibilities. One is that Voldy did realize but didn't think he could do anything about it. Even if he figured that Harry contained a piece of his soul,he wouldn't think he could do anything about this. Remember that Harry survived because Voldemort took his blood to resurrect, not necessarily because of the piece of his soul (Voldemort actually killed his own soul, and would've killed Harry). Maybe he knew, and assumed that he could kill Harry and the piece of his soul--a worthy sacrifice.


However, that is unlikely. He knew that there was not much of his soul left after Harry's horcrux-hunting, so he probably would not reduce himself to simply one-quarter-soul (himself and Nagini) willingly. So what did he think about Harry? Well, it took Dumbledore's shrewd ideas to figure out the truth; Voldy probably thought something like what he told Harry:




“I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it. My curse was deflected by the woman’s foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded upon myself. Aaah . . . pain beyond pain, my friends; nothing could have prepared me for it.I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive. What I was, even I do not know.



Snape sheds some light on the situation for us in book 5:



“It appears that the Dark Lord has been unaware of the connection between you and himself until very recently. Up till now it seems that you have been experiencing his emotions and sharing his thoughts without his being any the wiser. However, the vision you had shortly before Christmas —”


“The one with the snake and Mr. Weasley?”


“Do not interrupt me, Potter,” said Snape in a dangerous voice. “As I was saying . . . the vision you had shortly before Christmas represented such a powerful incursion upon the Dark Lord’s thoughts —”


“I saw inside the snake’s head, not his!”




It seems that he realized there was something here, and since Harry saw the snake's head, he knew it was something with his soul. Who knew how much he suspected. Dumbeldore also says:



“More recently,” said Dumbledore, “I became concerned that Voldemort might realize that this connection between you exists. Sure enough, there came a time when you entered so far into his mind and thoughts that he sensed your presence



Remember also that Dumbledore didn't realize that Harry would survive until he did, so Voldemort, even if he knew that Harry was a semi-Horcruxoid, might just kill him to get rid of Harry, since that, to him, would preserve his immortality.


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