Horcrux creation and different kinds of magic

[Deb]

No: HPFGUIDX 134971

 Please excuse me if someone else has postulated these ideas 
before.. I have not had time to read each and every posting yet... 
some 2000+ since 7/19... So I apologize in advance if this is not a 
new idea. 

  JKR has been showing us predominantly one type of magic in the HP 
books... She has shown us magic that is inherent in the individual. 
She postulates a school where wizards and witches go to learn how to 
use these inate talents to better effect. But she has also shown us 
that even young children who have the inate ability for magic can do 
magic... Harry growing his hair back over night after Aunt 
Petunia "scalps" him, Harry letting the boa constrictor lose from 
its cage, Ginny, Ron, Seamus and others flying on broomsticks long 
before they come to Hogwarts, the toddler wizard at the World Cup 
who has "borrowed" Daddy's wand and is making a slug grow bigger. 
This is inate magical ability + a wish or want. At Hogwarts young 
wizards and witches - armed with their first wand - learn to focus 
their powers and direct it. They learn the words and phrases for 
specific spells, charms, hexes, etc. This is inate power + 
activating words + focused intention directed toward the goal or 
result through the wand and it's magical core. The main focus of 
their education is on positive, good uses of magic ....  though 
there are those, even in school, who think nothing of using their 
education to hurt or humiliate others. While the Dark Arts are not 
specifically taught... that is students are not instructed in how to 
do Dark Magic, they are, under the DADA, taught about many aspects 
of the Dark Arts including Unforgivable Curses. They are not 
shielded from the Dark Arts but are taught how to recognize it and 
defend against it. After they reach 6th year students may go into 
the Restricted Section of the library without special permission, 
they can look up horrible potions, spells, hexes, curses. And even 
before 6th year, with the permission of a teacher, they can use 
these books.   

  However in HBP we come across a magic that is banned at Hogwarts! 
The creation of a Horcrux. Slughorn goes against the dictates of the 
school by telling Tom Riddle about them ... and is ashamed, and 
perhaps frightened, later for his part in furthering the development 
of Lord Voldemort so that he modifies his memory of this revelation. 
Why is this particular spell banned from Hogwarts?  

  I think that this particular spell comes under a separate kind of 
magic... ritual magic.  We have seen this type of magic only once 
before in the saga of Harry Potter - When Harry is transported to 
the cemetary by the Triwizard Cup turned Porta-key. Lord Voldemort 
and Wormtail have set the stage for the ritual that follows... they 
have the huge stone cauldron of water (or some other potion), they 
have all the ingredients needed, Wormtail uses a silver knife to cut 
off his hand and to take blood from Harry. This all takes place in a 
cemetary - sacred ground... and apparently though not specifically 
stated this is done at the dark of the moon (canon only notes 
starlit skies and makes no mention of any moon light)- a time of 
dark power.  And there are not single spell words... there is a 
whole litany. This kind of magic is more like creating a potion 
where specific steps must be followed, specific ingredients must be 
used, and specific actions must be taken. And this is magic of the 
blackest kind... blood magic.  I would imagine that one would not 
find this particular spell in the library at Hogwarts either.  
  If indeed this type of ritual magic is necessary for the creation 
of a horcrux, then one can not be created accidentally or even 
incidentally.  To create a horcrux one would need all of the 
elements required to complete the spell to be assembled in one 
place, one would need the time, the right circumstances, the right 
equipment in order to complete the ritual and create the horcrux-- 
and the focused intention to not only create a horcrux but firstly 
to commit deliberate, premeditated murder and spill blood in the 
process.  

 I think further that LV had created all 6 of his horcruxes before 
he went to kill Harry Potter... the bit of the prophecy that he knew 
was that "the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord 
approaches, born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the 
seventh month dies" .... I think from LV's POV he would see this as 
the last obstacle to his immortality (though IMO LV was already 
overconfident that his horcruxes would save him from any attempts to 
vanquish him and this made him careless and forgetful of the old 
powers, the old magic that he so dispised and mistrusted - the power 
of love) .... if this one person is the only one who has the power 
to vanquish him, and if LV kills him and prevents the fulfillment of 
the prophecy as he understands it, and his soul is segmented and 
hidden, then there would be no way that he could die... again 
speculating on LV's thought processes... very scary! 

  The power that he left with Harry when the AK back fired I think 
is more along the lines of transferring a skill - parseltongue and 
perhaps some of LV's ability as a legilimens. Rather like being 
splattered with the blowback from any other type of explosion.... 
some times scrapnel becomes so embedded that it is very hard to 
remove. 

  Deb