Harry Potter Was More of a Dark Lord than Voldemort Himself, and We Can Prove It
This is by no means a “Dark Harry” theory or anything like that. Give us a minute, and we’ll prove to you that Harry Potter was way more Voldemort-ish than whatever it was he defeated.
Arithmancy is an old and complex area of magical studies based on numbers and their effect on the real world. Next to no Hogwarts students pick this subject as their elective, and Muggle students are no different: they call it “algebra” and fear it more than death. In this sense, wizards and Muggles are very much alike.
But it’s the wondrous art of Arithmancy (coupled with our incredibly deep knowledge of the Dark Arts, of course) that we’re going to use to prove that Harry Potter was more of a Voldemort than Voldemort himself; luckily, we, Muggles, have calculators for this. We wouldn’t have done it if we had to actually count. Gross.
Let’s give ourselves a bit of context: to ensure a wizard’s survival upon his body’s destruction, a Horcrux would split his soul into halves and bind one of these halves to an object of the wizard’s choice. Voldemort created seven Horcruxes (including Harry), so his soul was split into eight pieces. Now, we’re ready.
By splitting his soul into halves each and every time, Voldemort was turning himself into, well, nothing. See for yourself: after creating the first Horcrux, he still had 0.5 of his original soul, but after creating the third one, he was left with just a measly bit of his original self worth precisely 0.125 of a soul!
Now, it gets crazier.
Since Harry was the sixth Horcrux, he received 0.015625 of Voldemort’s original soul, and Voldemort was left with an identical part. But after creating his seventh and final Horcrux, which he chose Nagini for, the Dark Lord’s body had 0.0078125 of a soul. He basically reduced his own soul into nothing — that’s terrifying!
By comparing these two numbers, we can see that by the time the Second Wizarding War began, the piece of the Dark Lord’s soul inside The Boy Who Lived was twice as big as the one left in Voldemort himself. From this perspective, Harry Potter was more of Tom Riddle than the abomination he was fighting against.
We don’t even know what blew our minds more: the fact that Harry was more Voldemort-ish than the Dark Lord himself or the dreadful thought of Tom Riddle, once a promising young man, shredding his own soul so much that he only retained 0.0078125 of it in the end. The second thought might just be crazier by a landslide.