[HPforGrownups] Re: Only Item of Godric Gryffyndor's. . . Nope

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 135575

> CathyD now:
> I think the Sorting Hat is pretty safe.  It is stored in Dumbledore's office.  Dumbledore feels that LV/Riddle murdered once (his father/grandparents - which made the diary Horcrux) and then again (he feels it was the second time only) to steal the locket and Hufflepuff cup.  That happened in the year or few after he left Hogwarts.  There was a 10 year span between the time of the Hepzibah Smith memory and the time DD says LV showed up at Hogwarts wanting a teaching position.  While he may have been able to zap his Award for Special Services into a Horcrux, or sneak an already made Horcrux into the Room of Requirement (on his way in or out of DD's office), I don't think he would have been able to cast the spell to turn the Sorting Hat into a Horcrux right there in front of DD.  DD can sense that 'this place has known magic' and 'magic always leaves traces, sometimes very distinctive traces.  I taught Tom Riddle. I know his style."  I think he would have been well aware of what LV was doing had he attempted it at that moment.  DD never says that LV was ever inside the school again.


Me now:

It occurs to me that we have no idea how Professor Dippet died.

If Dumbledore believes that the sword is the only thing remaining of
Gryffindor's then it stands to reason that before it was taken from
the hat, the common belief was that there were no relics of
Gryffindor's--save the sorting hat.

Now imagine that Hogwarts is your only home...is there anything that
says "you're here, you're one of us" more than the sorting hat?  It
does it literally not to mention the feelings it would engender once
it makes its decision.

How do we know that Voldemort didn't request another appointment with
Dippet, kill him, and make the sorting hat a horcrux?

I don't think there is any real evidence to suggest that he did, and
at the very least, the fact that Voldemort came back to ask for the
job again afterwards suggests that it did not.

And yet, it would be fairly easy to work around that without
stretching the plot too thin.

I doubt it happened, but the possibilities are intriguing.
-- 
Gregory Lynn