Foreshadowing? Two Places to Hide Horcruxes

[hermionegallo]

No: HPFGUIDX 135777

Previous posters on this thread:

> Merrylinks:
>Did Tom Riddle ever store something in one of the vaults [at 
Gringotts]? 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."
 
hg replies:
I also agree that Gringotts is an excellent hiding place.  I got the 
impression reading Sorcerer's Stone that we'd be returning to 
Gringott's.  Also, that map of the London Underground above 
Dumbledore's left knee still has yet to "come in handy."  Still, Jen 
points out that, "if ordinary people used Gringotts to protect 
objects, he would probably reject the idea."  Yes, but the function 
it would serve in the book (one being at Gringotts) is that there is 
something hidden in plain sight, almost insuring that it will be 
overlooked by anyone who knows him.  

Jen also says, "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..."  And this intrigues me, because I hadn't 
thought about where had it been from 1945, when he left Hogwarts, to 
about 1980, or right before his fall.  Gringotts, absolutely 
possible, and if not there, then where?

> Jen Reese: 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.

hg:
I disagree that the cup will be found at Hogwarts, and I have doubts 
that it was ever used as one.  If it is indeed a Horcrux, he would 
have had to commit another murder to turn it into one, possibly 
Dorcas Meadowes' murder, which he committed close to the end of his 
fall.  The three Riddles he killed made three Horcruxes, and I find 
it unlikely that he killed three people and made only two Horcruxes, 
saving one murder to use on something "really special."  Post 134655 
says why I think his award for special services to the school would 
be appropriately special and why it could likely be the Horcrux we 
find at Hogwarts, for we are all in agreement that Voldemort wanted 
to get back in there, and that the story arc has to take us back to 
Hogwarts, even if Harry isn't in attendance next year.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/134655  

Furthermore, Voldemort murdered Hepzibah Smith a long time after he 
graduated; in order for Harry to find a cup Horcrux at Hogwarts, 
Riddle would have had to make the cup Horcrux and the locket Horcrux 
at the time of Smith's murder (having saved out a Riddle murder) and 
slipped the cup Horcrux into the school the night of his interview 
with Dumbledore.  It seems a stretch.

I'm definitely stumped on places they'd be.
hg.