Some things that bother me

[momy424 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 134162

There are so many posts and though I keep trying to keep up, seems this is an almost impossible feat unless I quit my job, lol.
 
Anyway, I have some things that are bothering me on the series, but my points to reference have been borrowed (Books 1 - 4) so I will ask my esteemed "colleagues" on the list to assist.
 
I was almost 99% sure in GoF, in the opening chapters when they are at the Riddle house that the information on the deaths of the Riddle's included the son (Tom) whose body was not found or something to that effect, however in HBP, Riddle finds out about his father from his uncle and kills them that same night and it is quite clear that no one knew about Tom before that.  Am I imagining this?
 
RAB in my mind definitely is Regulus, I thought of him immediately as I read the initials, but did not pick up the locket at 12 GP until after reading the posts, good memory everyone.  My question (in my head) is now, did Kreacher know of his actions?  Seems to me Kreacher knows a great many of the goings on in the house and even though seems Regulus was a more appropriate "master" than Sirius was because of his love of the Dark Arts, does not mean that if Kreacher found out he was trying to destroy Voldy in anyway he would not have been sneaky and removed the locket from Regulus possession before he could destroy the soul inside.  
 
I am still bothered by the fact that Kreacher is sent to Hogwarts in HBP, but it was not thought of in OoTP, of course he plays a major plot point in the end so he was needed there, but just seems so glaringly obvious.
 
SPEW is another thing that I saw as an obvious oversight.  Hermione spent 2 books harping on this subject and working towards it, then just abandons it completely, that is just so unlike her.  I realize she has the raging hormone thing going and spends quite a lot of the book pining for Ron, but she still manages to nag about homework and to be worried about her OWL grades and other Hermione things, but not that and no explanation why.  Not that I am a big SPEW fan, just seemed weird.
 
I am still up in the air about the Snape evil thing.  I believe Dumbledore dead (really dead) but I don't know how I really feel about Snapes prior knowledge.  Most of me wants to believe he was only AK-ing on DD orders, but part of me feels that this may just not be the case and that Jo is showing us that evil exists on many levels, even those we believe in.  I don't know..
 
Last thing and then I swear I am done for now..
 
 
The Horcruxes - there is a lot of speculation being thrown around on Harry being one, and how and where others were formed.  When I read the book and the description of them, I guess I just took it another way.  When Voldemort learns of them and how they store a soul, I took it to mean, when you kill you have the option on that kill to use a piece of your soul to create a Horcrux but not necessarily have to do it or if you have done one prior does it happen with each kill.  It just seems that people are making it seem that Voldemort created a new one each and every time he killed someone and I doubt that is true.  
 
Ok there is my rant for now.
 
Momy424
 
 


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