Possible Horcrux

[nobodysrib]

No: HPFGUIDX 135981

<serenamoonsilver at y...> wrote:
> Dumbledore says that Voldemort uses things that are significant to
> him or trophies.  Well, he has a trophy in the school--his award
for 
> special services.  <snip>  What if when he came back to the school
> to apply for the DADA job, he turned his trophy into a horcrux.  It
> seems something Voldemort would get a kick out of, having one hidden
> right under Dumbledore's nose.

I love this!  Horcrux/trophy --> literal trophy.  Ocham's Razor! 
Voldemort might predict Dumbledore's eventual suspicions about
horcruxes and DADA applications and choose the more obvious (thus less
obvious to Dumbledore?) object.  Plus, it's a very Tom Riddle-ied
object, just like the diary.  Plus, it's stored at one of the safest
places in the wizarding world.

Not to mention, who would know more about horcruxes (other than
Voldmort or Dumbledore) than a DADA prof?  But for a DADA prof to
suspect a trophy horcrux, s/he'd probably have to stick around
Hogwarts for more than one year, and Voldemort (presumably) ensured
this wouldn't happen.

Plus, (speculation...), if Harry does not return to school for study,
this would give him a reason to return to Hogwarts (not as a student)
during Book 7.  (And it seems to me that we've gotta see some of
Hogwarts (if not much of, if not the series climax...) in Book 7.

-- nobody's rib