Finally saw it! - Now Just the Ring.

[Carol]

md wrote:
> What I don't get is why wearing the ring did that to DD before he broke the horcrux, but wearing the locket doesn't actually harm HRH?

Carol responds:

They were protected in different ways, the ring by the curse that nearly killed Dumbledore (Snape must have removed it when he confined the curse to DD's hand or DD could not have worn the ring when he visited Slughorn). The locket, in contrast, is protected by the poison potion and the Inferi. It works more insidiously, like the diary, by reaching the mind of those who wear/use it. (How the cup, which was protected only by the dragon and the spells that the Goblins placed on their vaults, would have affected the user, we don't know. It clearly had no effect just to carry it.)

The distinction between the protective curse on the ring and the soul bit inside it, which would have been wholly obliterated regardless of any traces of the magic used to create a Horcrux, is obscured in the film, and Snape's "timely action" in saving Dumbledore, touched on lightly by DD in the book HBP and clarified in DH, is omitted from the HBP film altogether.

Carol, who still thinks that the film version makes no sense and wonders what nonreaders of the books make of it