Foreshadowing? Two Places to Hide Horcruxes

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 135751

Merrylinks:
> We know that Voldy!Quirrell broke into Gringotts that same day
> in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the Sorcerer's Stone. I'm
> wondering, did Voldy ever break into Gringotts to leave something 
> behind? Or in his more reputable days, did Tom Riddle ever store
> something in one of the vaults? This might be an excellent place
> to hide a Horcrux.

Julie:
> I think you are onto something there.  I wonder if the diary was the
> horcrux left in Hogwarts since he "preserved his 16 year old self."
>  Gringotts is intrguing.  After all, the goblins don't strike me as 
> the kind that would jump up and say, "OOOh, he has a vault here and
> it's number 666!  Here let me show you!"  He could not walk in the
> front door, but it has been broken into before.  This certainly is
> an interesting possibility, IMO.

Jen: So far Riddle's hiding places have been meaningful to his 
history: the Gaunt House, the cave where he terrorized the children, 
possibly the cup at Hogwarts. Dumbledore said Tom "showed contempt for 
anything that tied him to other people, anything that made him 
ordinary." (chap, 13, p. 277) So if ordinary people used Gringotts to 
protect objects, he would probably reject the idea.

But if he did hide one at Gringotts, I agree it would be the diary. 
That's the only Horcrux he allowed somone else to safeguard as far as 
we know, and since he intended it to be a weapon as well as a 
Horcrux....

He had to hide it *somewhere* during the years before he gave it to 
Lucius, since that happened shortly before his fall. But we may never 
find out now that it's destroyed.

Jen