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The book didn’t even explain this and only said that Harry Potter had no idea what Dumbledore was talking about before the story moved on. This has puzzled fans for years since it happened, and a new Reddit post has many fans debating what it means. This is something that has happened at numerous times in the novels, where things are never explained. However, author J.K. Rowling already revealed the truth about this statement, and also why the books chose not to spell it out for readers.
What Does Dumbledore’s “In Essence Divided” Actually Mean?
Harry was seeing things he shouldn’t have been able to for a long time, and the fact he could speak Parseltongue was another clue. He was connected with Lord Voldemort in some way, and this was the scene where Dumbledore realized how. When Lord Voldemort attacked and murdered Harry’s parents, Harry’s mother saved her son’s life and dispatched the dark wizard for a short time, and it connected the boy and the wizard for life. However, even more important, this made Harry into a horcrux.
According to J.K. Rowling, this was a moment where Dumbledore looked into the visions and saw “Voldemort’s soul dividing. He’s playing through his own theory about what’s happened and his theory, is of course, correct. That Voldemort, as summed up by the snake, divided.” Furthermore, since the books followed Harry Potter on his journey and the readers knew what Harry knew, it was never explained because Potter had no idea what Dumbledore was talking about. Dumbledore had suspected this since Chamber of Secrets, but it was this moment where he but two and two together.
