Horcrux Making - these theories are so interesting.

[Matt]

No: HPFGUIDX 136753

--- Paula ("dustermom02") wrote:
> And in HBP, (p506US), DD is talking to harry about making 
> the final horcrux with Harry's death he says, "After an 
> interval of some years, however, he used Nagini to kill 
> an old Muggle man, and it might then have occurred to him 
> to turn her into his last Horcrux."  So we know he just 
> has to "use" the snake to kill - which is the same with 
> the basilisk in CoS.  

A minor point: Although Dumbledore refers to Voldemort "using" Nagini
to kill Frank Bryce, the actual scene in GF makes it pretty clear that
Voldemort killed him using the killing curse --

"And then the chair was facing Frank, and he saw what was sitting in
it. His walking stick fell to the floor with a clatter. He opened his
mouth and let out a scream. He was screaming so loudly that he never
heard the words the thing in the chair spoke as it raised a wand.
There was a flash of green light, a rushing sound, and Frank Bryce
crumpled. He was dead before he hit the floor."

If that were not clear enough, Bryce's "ghost" also emerges from
Voldemort's wand during the priori incantatem scene in chapter 34.

I'm not sure why, in HBP, Dumbledore says Voldemort used Nagini to
kill Bryce -- although if I recall correctly, Harry never tells him
about the specifics of his dream about the murder, so Dumbledore may
have surmised what happened to Frank (we know he is at least aware of
the disappearance from the discussion after the Pensieve scene in GF).

-- Matt