Evil Overlord for the day (Re: Horcrux query)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 144672

Jen:
> The clue about a horcrux being placed inside a living thing makes 
> me think not about Harry, but how that could be used against him in 
> book 7.  Now that Dumbledore is dead, Harry will be the target of 
> Voldemort again (really, removing Dumbledore was the most logical 
> plan LV has had in 6 books <g>). Today I put on my evil overlord 
> hat and thought, what would be the best way to get to Harry? Here 
> are two heinous options...bwahahaha!:
> 
> 1) Kidnap someone close to Harry and threaten to make that person 
> into a horcrux. Hate to say it but Ron the sacrificial knight might 
> be a good bet.
> 
> 2) Voldemort discovers Harry's hatred for Snape, LV decides it's 
> time to punish Snape and makes *him* into a horcrux. He's hoping to 
> tempt Harry to take a step toward evil ways and try to kill Snape, 
> but of course he overlooks the fact that Harry's love protects him 
> from Voldemort's temptation.


SSSusan:
Actually... the way Harry feels about Snape just as Year 6 ends, I 
think he very much WOULD be SORELY tempted by an opportunity to off 
Snape!  (Snape had better watch his ass 'til Harry gets a chance, 
*somehow*, to hear & believe that Snape was following DD's orders on 
the tower. IMHO only, of course--YMMV) :-)

Anyway, I think something along the lines of the two options Jen has 
presented would be VERY wise of Voldy.  (Then again, as noted, he 
hasn't done a whole lot of wise things that we've been privvy to, has 
he?)  

What I wonder is:  Is it possible to keep from Voldy the knowledge 
that his horcruxes are being hunted & destroyed?  Will Voldy not have 
built into one or more of them some kind of special, internal, 
additional magic which would provide him with a warning that 
somebody's messin' with his goods?  I mean, he's an overconfident 
kind of guy, but would he be THAT stupid to not at least consider a 
magical alert mechanism on at least one of the horcruxes?

Assuming Voldy does become aware of the search & destroy mission -- 
whether by such a pre-planned alert mechanism or by means of a 
traitor's report from within the Order or somehow getting the info 
out of Snape -- wouldn't it be likely that Voldy would then make MORE 
horcruxes?  I mean, as long as he can stay one step ahead, he could 
just keep killing people & creating howlops, couldn't he?  Making 
Harry's mission seemingly endless.

I doubt Jo will do that to Harry/to us -- and I suppose in the final 
volume it would be more likely that such knowledge of Harry's 
horsechow hunt would simply cause Voldy to turn & go *after* Harry, 
rather than engage in more evasive measures like creating more 
hortchops.  Still, I think it would make SENSE for Voldy to make more 
and/or to do as Jen suggested in #1 -- kidnap someone and either 
threaten to or actually do make a horcrux out of him/her.  ::shudders 
at the thought of Ron, Hermie or Ginny here::  

Now, SNAPE as a horcrux... wouldn't that make the folks salivating 
for karmic payback happy? :-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan, convinced (for now) that if Voldy finds out 
about the horslut hunt from Snape, it won't be from an intentional 
act on Snape's part.