7 Horcruxes - Shock & outrage!!

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No: HPFGUIDX 144836

Geoff provided this quote:
> '"But now, Harry, armed with this information, the crucial memory 
> you have succeeded in procuring for us, we are closer to the secret 
> of finishing Lord Voldemort than anyone has ever been before. You 
> heard him, Harry: 'Wouldn't it be better, make you stronger, to 
> have your soul in more pieces... isn't seven the most powerfully 
> magical number...' /Isn't seven the most powerfully magical 
> number./ Yes, I think the idea of a seven-part soul would greatly 
> appeal to Lord Voldemort."
> "He made /seven/ Horcruxes?" said Harry, horror-struck, while 
> several of the portraits on the walls made similar noises of shock 
> and outrage. "But they could be anywhere in the world - hidden - 
> buried or invisible -"'
> (ibid. p.470)

 
Now this is part of another thread that was discussing the number of 
horcruxes and their after-causes, but this particular reply sent 
my mind spinning!! I remember that at the end of HBP, Mcgonagall *asks* HP for info on what he and DD were doing that night and any other info that DD might have shared with him (? is the second assumption right? I think I need to read those last few pages all over again... I might as well not do it as I can't read DD's death all over again!!). 

In OotP, the portraits tell that it is their bounden duty to serve the present Headmaster (or headmistress in this case), so couldn't it be possible that McGonagall would know for sure about the 7 horcruxes thing??  That is, if she asks them for the info, she can get it. HP is DDM, but the portraits are there to serve her now. Wouldn't DD's portrait itself not tell her all she wants to know? Why ask HP and then be angry with him for not telling????

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