Horcrux problem

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 144451

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "charon_death_ngfh" 
<charondeathngfh at n...> wrote:
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> What if there are more than seven horcuxes?


va32h:

Well there are supposed to be six - the 7th bit of Voldemort's soul 
is the one that still resides in his body. 

I don't think there are more than six, and I don't think the 
horcruxes are anything other than exactly what Dumbledore said they 
were: the cup, the ring, the locket, the snake, the diary, something 
of Gryffindor's or Ravenclaws.

Why do I think this?

First - because that's the way JKR writes. While she does have plot 
twists and surprised *within* each book, she doesn't declare 
something in one book, then negate in the next. Dumbledore is a 
character that is known for delivering exposition to the reader (and 
for telling the truth - to the reader. So for JKR to say in book 
7 "all that stuff I said about horcruxes in book 6 was wrong, here's 
the real story" would be a huge deviation from her previous style. 

Second - there simply isn't time to sufficiently develop the idea of 
Harry learning about more horcruxes. We have one book left, in which 
pretty much everything has to be wrapped up. Of course, JKR could 
write one paragraph in which Harry meets a character or reads a book 
that conveniently explains everything quickly, but that would be 
cheap and cheesy, and I do think more of JKR than that. 

va32h