Fawkes the Horcrux

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No: HPFGUIDX 137757

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "johnbowman19" <jhnbwmn at h...> 
wrote:

> How can he not be truly dead you ask? I would argue that DD had
> made a Horcrux.

[deletia]

> Horcruxes? I think the reason why he knows about Horcruxes is
> because he made one. We know of one possible killing that DD did,
> and that was his defeat of Grindelwald. He defeated Grindelwald at
> the age of 105 (according to the lexicon) and certainly 105 years
> is enough time to learn about horcruxes before he beat Grindelwald.

First, we don't know that he actually killed Grindelwald.

Second, horcruxes are made from murders.  Killings during wartime by 
soldiers are not considered murder (in the sense they are not ipso 
facto crimes as they are in the civilian world).   So even if 
Dumbledore did kill Grindelwald, as it was as part of a war, it would 
not be considered evil.

This leaves aside other points:  Dumbledore would never murder as it 
is not in his character, and if he is an expert on Horcruxes, then 
why didn't he give Harry more pointers on how to identify items which 
have had that spell placed upon them--DD can read the invisible signs 
of magic after all, and if were a spell he knew how to do, I can't 
imagine that he would not have made telling Harry how to recognize 
that particular invisible sign a priority.


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