Horcruxes: Groundrules and Theories

[ongj87]

No: HPFGUIDX 136164

>Juli: who's Dorcas Meadowes? I don't remember him

Dorcas Meadowes was a former member of the old Order of the Phoenix.  
This is in the fifth book at the party to celebrate when Ron and 
Hermione are made into prefects when Mad Eye Moody is showing the 
picture of the old order members to Harry.  Mad Eye recalls that 
Meadowes was personally killed by old Voldie himself.   Oh, and it's 
a 'her' not a 'him'. 

I think it is possible that Hepzibah Smith (prior owner to the cup of 
Hufflepuff) might have been one of the deaths that went into making 
one of Voldemort's horcruxes.

I also don't think it's quite fair to completely rule out Harry being 
one of the Horcruxes.  The following is just one bit of my theory and 
isn't strong without additional support, but I think it's very 
interesting.

The fact being that Voldemort despised his father, I think it's 
reasonable to say that he would be very sympathetic to his mother.  I 
believe that he thinks that if she had lived, he never would have had 
to grow up in the orphanage.

If Voldemort intentially planted a horcrux in Harry, I think he would 
have liked to think of Harry as his heir, something to stretch out the 
line of Slytherin.  In this, I believe he would have wanted Harry as a 
child to be raised in the way he idealized, without a father (thus, he 
killed James) and with a mother to raise him (thus, he wanted to let 
Lily live).  

Voldemort wanted to have very special items for his horcruxes and 
Dumbledore theorized that he was in pursuit of relics of the founders 
of Hogwarts.  If Voldemort was under the impression that Harry might 
be the heir to Gryffindor, I think he might have found the idea of 
turning Harry into one of his Horcruxes intriguing.  In making Harry 
one his horcruxes, he might have been under the impression that this 
might also be the end to the line of Gryffindor.

ongj87