Furcate - 1. To form a fork; branch. 2. Forked; branching.
Harry stood in front of the holly bush, staring absently at a forked branch that had somehow been stripped bare.
The different parts of the branch seemed to represent the two paths he could take. One, to find every single one of Voldemort's horcruxes and destroy them, before killing He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named himself. The dangerous path. The path a Gryffindor would take.
Two, to find and master the Deathly Hallows, so that he, Harry, would have conquered Death itself. It was the path of a Slytherin, he knew. Harry stared at the bush while, inside him, the two Houses battled for supremacy.