He’s also a Horcrux in canon; the murder that created him was the murder of Harry’s parents, which still happened.
It wasn’t the murder of Harry’s parents, it was
when Lily cast her own life between them as a shield, the Killing Curse rebounded upon Lord Voldemort, and a fragment of Voldemort’s soul was blasted apart from the whole, and latched itself onto the only living soul left in that collapsed building.
(Deathly Hallows, Ch 33)
The Killing-Curse-reflecting Love Shield doesn’t exist in HPMoR, so if Harry is a Horcrux it’s not because things happened the same as in canon.
Sirius somehow got everybody to convict and incarcerate Pettigrew in his place (Imperius + repeated doses of Polyjuice?).
He wasn’t even convicted, just tossed straight into Azkaban. And another piece of evidence is the Quibbler article claiming Pettigrew and Sirius are the same person.
It wasn’t the murder of Harry’s parents, it was
(Deathly Hallows, Ch 33)
The Killing-Curse-reflecting Love Shield doesn’t exist in HPMoR, so if Harry is a Horcrux it’s not because things happened the same as in canon.
He wasn’t even convicted, just tossed straight into Azkaban. And another piece of evidence is the Quibbler article claiming Pettigrew and Sirius are the same person.