Thoughts on Wormtail and the Horcruxes

[Janine R. Shahinian]

No: HPFGUIDX 133704

Leah/"littleleahstill" wrote:

<< I was wondering what if one of the Horcruxes isn't Nagini?  Was Voldemort in any fit state to give away part of his soul when he killed Frank Bryce?   I'm thinking about the murder of Cedric Diggory.  It must be Wormtail who wields the wand, but whose is the inspiration behind the spell- I can't imagine Wormtail having the wherewithal to AK a boy he doesn't know.
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In the graveyard, Voldemort hopes to do two things, recover strength
and physical being, and destroy his nemesis, Harry Potter.  He might
well want to tuck a bit of soul away before he tries again.  So
having ripped off a piece of soul with the killing of Cedric, he
makes a horcrux out of silver and gives it to  Wormtail (after all,
why would he otherwise care if Wormtail has a prothesis or a
stump?). >>

Janine:
You beat me to the punch in suggesting that the silver hand is a possiblehorcrux. However, I *do* think Wormtail has it in him to kill Cedric on his own, just like any other DE is able to kill on LV orders, so this kill doesn't count towards splitting LV soul in making a horcrux. Instead, we still have James's and Lily's deaths left over from when LV might have been planning to create a horcrux along with killing Harry (and failed). So his wandering soul could have already been broken.

As for Nagini, I figure she probably *is* a horcrux, mostly because DD suggests this. It also would help explain why Harry could also see through the eyes of the snake in addition to being tapped into LV, directly. But since Harry views the happenings at the Riddle house through Nagini *before* Frank Bryce's death, it seems to me that Nagini became a horcrux before LV's downfall.


littleleahstill:
<<And finally on Wormtail- I know there's been speculation on various
boards that the silver hand (horcrux or not) was going to be the
downfall of Lupin.  But we now have another werewolf, named after
the evil wolf of norse mythology. Fenrir was eventually bound when a
god placed a hand in his mouth- it was bitten off, but Fenrir was
captured and his power restrained.  Is this Wormtail's redemption?>>

Janine:
This sounds like an excellent two-for-one theory! Get Fenrir to destroy the horcrux hand while the silver destroys Fenrir.

Janine