Theory: The Prophecy, Horcrucxes, and "that" night at Godrics Hollow- long

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     This has been something bubbling in my brain for a week or so and while it 
comes mostly from speculation, I like it and hope others will either jump on the 
bandwagon or put me in my rightful place. Anyway here goes.

     The Prophecy states that "The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord 
approaches". To me this seems to state that the prophecy was made before 
Harry and Neville were born. Assuming this LV had over a year to decide 
which boy was the one to attack.

    Hold with me now because this is where i start to guess. At one point either 
before or after the prophecy was made LV went after Frank and Alice 
Longbottom to retrieve something of Ravenclaw's. The reason why they held 
this relic come from speculation but with some knowledgeable hints. Firstly, 
Rowling likes to use names and wouldn't it be fun if the Longbottoms were the 
"bottom"of a "long" line, i.e. family. Secondly, though I can't find which House 
Frank Longbottom was in, I guess it was Ravenclaw because Gram 
Longbottom states in the Hospital scene in OoTP that he was very gifted (don't 
have that book on me to make sure but I believe so) meaning that he was very 
smart thus placing him in that particular house. Meanwhile Gram has always 
reminded me of the mother who married into a family and was overly proud of 
the son she produced being a part of a great fatheridge.

    Getting back to the theory- LV had already made ring, diary, locket, and cup 
into Horcuxes, and saw the relic of Ravenclaws as his next. On that fateful trip 
to the Longbottoms, he took 4 DE's with him knowing he was facing two 
aurors in the Longbottoms. The 4 he took with him were two old trused ones- 
the Lestranges- and two new ones he cared little about- Regulus Black and 
Barty Crouch Jr. After their success at stealing this relic of Ravenclaw's LV 
was a little too open and Regulus found out what was going on. Regulus 
realized that the locket had already become a Horcux and set off to destroy it. 
The note from RAB says "I have desroyed THE Horcrux" not "YOUR Horcux". 
Knowing enough to bring another locket in the Horcux's place, he was able to 
remove it but not destroy it. Shortly afterwards Regulus was hunted down and 
killed by his fellow DE's because LV reralized what he had done. No matter 
who removed the locket LV now had six pieces of his soul seperated, the 4 
mentioned earlier, his new one of Ravenclaws, and himself.

     Beyond taking this object of Ravenclaws and making it a Horcrux for 
himself, he also took some properties from the object. It was now under the 
heir of Slytherin's control and thus could no longer protect those of 
Ravenclaw's line that would automatically have some brains about them, 
namely Neville.

     Knowing this LV assumed that Harry was his only threat between the two 
boys. So, with some time to think on it, LV sought out Harry and was able to 
find him inn Goderic's Hollow. James confronted LV trying to protect his family 
but LV overtook him. LV also foud a suitable object in the house to make 
Harry's death a horcrux for. (This works as Goderic is the name of LV's last 
remaining founder and he wanted Harry's death to become a Horcrux.

     Thus LV continued with his most trusted servant (Nagini, who always 
followed his orders because of his gift w/ Parseltounge) into the room 
contianing Harry and Lilly. LV did not need Lily, had seen women as weak 
since his revalation of his own mother, and thus felt he did not need to kill her.  
She sacrificed herself none the less and gave Harry his protection. Having 
killed Lilly, LV cast the AK curse on Harry and quickly afterwards began the 
spell to make a Horcrux. However the AK curse rebounded off of Harry and hit 
LV. Because LV was in the middle of the Horcrux charm and had not killed 
Harry his killing of Lilly and or James became the death he needed and 
Nagini became the Horcrux.

     Meanwhile the destruction of the part of LV's soul that was still within him, 
caused the scar on Harry's forehead that resembles the crack in the 
destructed ring. Not all of this part of LV's soul dissappeared, part of it knew 
(or thought it did) that Harry should have died and thus took root in Harry 
himself, giving Harry powers of LV. LV, with no parts of his soul within himself 
but still alive thanks to his Horcuxes, became a phantom of sorts and ran 
away.

     Shortly afterwards the Lestranges and Barty Jr realized that what they had 
done at the Longbottoms could bring clues as to reviving LV. the 3 DE's 
tortured the Longbottoms in hope of finding something, but all the 
Longbottoms could tell them was that an old family heirloom had been stolen. 
Not being able to give the proper infromation, Frank and Alice were Crucio'ed 
into insanity.

    So we pick up at the end of GoF. LV has finally realized that Nagini is a 
Horcrux (He had not before or else he would have used her to bring himself 
back to a sort of body and would have realized that this would be easier than 
breaking into Hogwarts to steal the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's stone) and by 
nursing off her has gotten to baby!LV state. LV takes blood from Harry- 
releasing the miniscule part of his soul that was in Harry, but not undoing the 
connection they aquired from LV's failed Horcrux. It is this fact that brings the 
"gleam" in Dumbuldore's eye because he now knows that Harry need not die 
to defeat LV.

     Thus the total number of Horcruxes are 7: The Diary-destroyed, the ring- 
destroyed, the cup, the locket- which VM still is unsure that it has been 
tampered with, Nagini, that which he took from the Longbottom's that is of 
Ravenclaw's, and his partial soul he took from Nagini and Harry.

     This theory explains several things. Firstly an underlying reason why VM 
chose Harry instead of Neville. Secondly, why Neville is a late bloomer, he 
didn't have his Family's power and thus must find the power within himself, as 
Harry has shown him, and to a certain extent his torture by Bella has given 
him. This theory shows why the Longbotoms were attacked even though no 
DE's knew of the Prophecy, and how Horcruxes fit into the arc of the whole 
story. Lastly it speculates that Neville might have his day after the Ravenclaw 
Horcrux is destroyed and how VM has a weakend part of his own soul withinn 
him that will allow Harry to successfully destroy VM.

     I know I have speculated much in this long idea but it seems to fit and 
hopefully I won't be blown out of the water when book 7 comes out. For those 
of you still with me thanks for your patience, I hope I havn't stepped on 
anyones toes and please let me know what you have to say, even if you have 
to send an email to me that explains how much of an idiot I am.

Yo'm Blair