The Sorting Hat a horcrux? (was:Thoughts on HBP)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 133148

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> I can't wait to find out what of
Ravenclaw's there might still be left (I think DD was probably right
about the sword being all that there was left of Godric).

Hickengruendler:

My very first thought was, that Dumbledore was wrong, because the 
Sorting Hat is Godric Gryffindor's hat, isn't it? I was really 
interested, when JKR only mentioned the sword and ignored the Hat. This 
made my thoughts going to the Sorting Hat at once.

Of course the problem with this theory is, that the Hat is probably as 
safe as the sword and really hard for Voldemort to get in his fingers. 
But I still think it's possible for him to do somehow.

That said, no matter if it's the Sorting Hat or not, I tend to think 
the last item is something from Gryffindor. JKR left it open, and it 
was laid to much emphasize of it being probably from Ravenclaw, IMO.