Missing Horcrux = Ravenclaw's

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 137035

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jjjjjuliep" <jjjjjulie at a...> 
wrote:

> > 
> > I certainly don't believe Nagini is a Horcrux!!
> 
> I do.  Here's why:
> 
> 2.  From the POV of trusting the characters:  Why would Dumbledore 
> tell Harry things that were not true?  Why would he send Harry on a 
> wild goose (snake?) chase, waste precious time, and possibly endanger 
> him for no good reason?  

In HBP (and the subsequent interview) JKR has set up the possibility 
that DD makes mistakes - and when he makes them they tend to be big! Of 
course, there is the other possibility that DD just wants Harry to be 
aware that living things can be Horcruxes (leading onto Harry a Horcrux 
etc etc.)
> 
> 3.  From the POV of JKR:  she's all but said, in her interview last 
> month, that Harry needs to look for the locket, the cup, the snake, 
> and the missing item.
> 
What she said was - 
'Harry now knows — well he believes he knows – what he's facing. 
Dumbledore's guesses are never very far wide of the mark. I don't want 
to give too much away here, but Dumbledore says, `There are four out 
there, you've got to get rid of four, and then you go for Voldemort.' 
So that's where he is, and that's what he's got to do.'

The phrase 'believes he knows' is very interesting here! It suggests 
that all is not what it seems.

Brothergib