Horcruxes anew

[lealess]

No: HPFGUIDX 138630

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" <msbeadsley at y...>
wrote:
> <SNIP>
>"Harry couldn't explain, even to himself, whey he didn't just throw
> Riddle's diary away. ...even though he *knew* the diary
> was blank, he kept absentmindedly picking it up & turning the pages,
> as if it were a story he wanted to finish. And while Harry had never
> heard the name T.M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something
> to him, ... as though Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very
> small, and half-forgotten."
> 
> This is (in the wake of HBP) one of the most tantalizing sections in
> the series... Either Harry is experiencing an affinity as
> side-effect of having had some of Voldemort's powers transferred to
> him, or the diary has a spell on it to make it attractive ...,
> or Harry really is a horcrux and is sensing the relationship between
> the part of Voldemort's soul he carries and the one in the diary.
> 
> Sandy aka msbeadsley

Fantastic observation, and it also foreshadows Harry's trust in the
potions book of the Half Blood Prince, that he saw the Prince as a friend.

Harry was also able to destroy the diary, perhaps significantly.

lealess