Missing Horcrux = Ravenclaw's

[phanbu]

No: HPFGUIDX 137172

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rachaelmcadams"
<rachaelmcadams at y...> wrote:
> So, building on Dumbledore's theory that Voldemort wanted to make a 
> horcrux out of something from each of Hogwarts' founders, I think the 
> horcrux that we don't know is from Ravenclaw.


I'm certainly not going to try to refute Dumbledore's reasons
for believeing that Tomm Riddle wanted to make his final horcruxes
(or horcruces?) from the Hogwarts founders' belongings.  I have,
however, been trying to create a horcrux creation time line.

> Alright, just to go over the horcruxes (though I'm pretty sure 
> everyone here know them), they are:
> 1)the diary

This was Tom Riddle's personal belonging, which he purchased from 
a muggle bookseller.  It was made into a horcrux using the death
of (Moaning) Myrtle in 1943.
[Note: Does this qualify as an actual murder, as the basilisk 
did the the killing, not Tom?]

> 2)the ring

This ring belonged to Salazar Slytherin and was passed down through 
the generations to Tom's mother.  It would have been made into a 
horcrux with the murder of Tom's father (Tom Riddle, Sr.) in 1944.  
Tom's grandparents were murdered, too.

> 3)Slytherin's locket (which was likely found at Grimmauld Place)
> 4)Hufflepuff's cup

Tom left Hogwarts in 1945 and began working for Borgin and Burkes.
This is how he met Hepzibah Smith, who at the time owned Slytherin's
locket and Hufflepuff's chalice.  He murders the woman to steal these
items.  He probably used this murder to make the chalice a horcrux.
I believe this for no reason except that she was HH's heir.

It is  not clear to me who was murdered to make the locket into a
horcrux.  Possibly MrBorgin of Borgin and Burkes, since he cheated
Tom's mother when buying the locket.  I'm placing both of these 
murders sometime between 1945 and 1948.

> 5)Something of Ravenclaw's or Gryffindor's

Now, Tom has made two horcruxes from objects that once belonged to 
Salazar Slytherin and one from an object that once belonged to 
Helga Hufflepuff.  This is when he probably decided to create the
last two horcruxes from items belonging to the last two Hogwarts 
founders.  He was only successful at finding one such item.

I'm not going to make a prediction regarding the identity of this
item.  It seems that Tom was willing to wait a long time before
turning this item into a horcrux though.  During this long wait was 
when he applied for the DADA position at Hogwarts, apparently (but 
not necessarily) an attempt to get into the castle to locate the
item.  I have no idea what the item was or who was murdered to turn
it into a horcrux.

> *note: these 5 were made into horcruxes before Voldemort tries to 
> kill Harry
>
> 6) Nagini (she was made into a horcrux when he killed Frank Bryce)
>
> As well, Dumbledore says that Voldemort was planning on making his 
> last horcrux when he killed Harry, but since he failed, he was unable 
> to do so. 

Finally, we know that the attempted murder of Harry happened in 1981. 
[I have to say that if this is true, Voldemort is very patient, 
waiting over 30 years to attempt his final horcrux from when the 
decision was made to use the Hogwarts founders items.]

If Nagini was indeed created as a living horcrux whan Frank Bryce was 
murdered, this happened in 1994.


Cheers!
   -- Phanbu