Finally saw it! - Now Just the Ring.

[Carol]

md wrote:
> It could be argued that the Voldy Spasm makes sense in that the ring, above all other horcruxes, belongs to the heir of Slytheren, (sp?) and that it being such a powerful object and it being so connected to Voldy even without the Horcrux it could cause Harry to react. 
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Carol responds:

I don't quite follow your reasoning here. I'd say that the diary was the Horcrux most clearly connected with the Heir of Slytherin. True, the ring was inherited by the Gaunts (descendants of Slytherin) and he would have considered it rightfully his own, but the same can be said of Slytherin's locket, a seemingly more valuable object with connections to a Hogwarts founder. And the ring came by way of the Peverells, not Slytherin himself (a different line into which a Slytherin descendant must have intermarried).

As for the powers of the ring, Riddle probably didn't realize that it had any, any more than the Gaunts did. (They only valued it because of the proof of Pure-Blood andestors.) He certainly didn't know it was a Hallow; in fact, it was clear from his behavior that he didn't know the legend of the three brothers or he'd probably have joined the Hallows hunt to become Master of Death (whatever that means, exactly) with no need to split his soul into Horcruxes.

Carol, who still thinks that the scene makes no sense, however dramatic it may appear