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It's a difficult one. Certainly, though, it opens up exciting possibilities at the end of the book.
What if - and I'm reaching here - Harry inadvertently became a Horcrux, and Voldemort didn't know that was the case, until much later when the scar link became fully active?
Voldemort would actually have had SEVEN Horcruxes (not that he'd tell anyone since eight bits of soul isn't particularly magical). When the Scoobs reckon that they have destroyed all of the remaining four, and finally "kill" Voldemort, the ghastly realisation dawns that he hasn't gone, it isn't all over, and that Harry must be keeping the creature alive by his very existence.
Fantastic setup for a whole range of possible endings, after the faux climactic battle.
Personally, I think the remaining four Horcruxes must be house-specific, due to Voldemort's fixation on (a) treasure, and (b) the school, and Rowling's fondness for symmetry. Slytherin's Locket (at Grimmauld Place), Hufflepuff's Cup (at Borgin & Burke's), Ravenclaw's Wand (disappeared by Ollivander), and Gryffindor's ??? (? Room of Mysteries, guarded by Lily ?). We've been told it isn't the sword.
I don't think Nagini is a Horcrux - though it may just be that Dumbledore foiled Voldemort in getting his paws on anything that beloged to Gryffindor.
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