Horcrux in each book?Using the Mirror of Erised to find Horcruxes
t2datizzang
t2datizzang at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 2 04:26:55 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 143882
> Will wrote:
> "How about the Mirror of Erised being a Horcrux itself?" <snip>
>
>
> CH3ed:
> I have no idea. It would seem that if the Mirror of Erised is
> housing a piece of LV's soul it should have helped LV/Quirrell find
> the philosopher's stone in book 1, ay? <snip>
Will:
I think the mirror only has the ability to show your greatest desire.
When Quirrell looks into the mirror he sees himself presenting the
stone to Voldemort. Voldemort does not/isn't capable of looking in the
mirror, but i believe that he does know how to work it because he
tells Quirrell to use Harry to get the Stone. We know that Dumbledore
magically placed the Stone in the mirror, and only those that only
wanted to get the stone out, but not use it could successfully get the
stone. As we can see, you can PUT things in the mirror, or have it as
the guardian of such things. You also see voldemort interfere when
Quirrell is talking to himself and says something along the lines of
"...should i break it?" If the Horcrux was inside the mirror, i don't
think that Voldemort would want Quirrell breaking it. As for the
Horcrux helping out LV/Quirrell, well Dumbledore has that spell on it,
right?
I also believe that Voldemort finds the Mirror to have great power and
significance. The mirror shows him his greatest desire, and when he
achieves it, won't he someday go back to the Mirror and look into it
again? When you have achieved your greatest desire, what's left for
you? The mirror could have been Tom Riddle's starting point, showing
him his greatest desire of becoming all powerful, and pushing him
along the way to the dark side to achieve it.
It's getting late, hope this all makes some sort of coherent sense
lol, if not i'd be happy to explain it again, at some normal hour of
the day haha!
Hoping to get a good discussion on Horcruxes going! ;)
~Will
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