...Grey Snape/Dumbledore/Harry - Harry Skill.

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 143097

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
 
> 
> But what is Harry going to do? Neither Dumbledore nor anyone else 
has
> taken the time to teach Harry this very valuable and very appliable
> skill. So how does he find the Horcruxes, and if by chance he 
stubbles
> across one, how does he know what it is, and if by some extreme 
stroke
> of luck he determines that it really is a Horcrux, how does he spot
> and disarm the many charms protecting it? The answer is, he doesn't,
> because no one bothered to teach him how.
> 
> Harry is completely and thoroughly lacking in the most basic skills 
to
> do this job. If he was train up in dueling, Defense Arts, and curse
> breaking he would at least have some resources to draw on.
> 

Hickengruendler:

I think Dumbledore has done a lot to help Harry identifying possible 
Horcruxes. In fact, there is only one Horcrux left to be identified. 
The others are already known, and Dumbledore told Harry, what they 
are. And about the missing one: Dumbledore has given Harry all his 
informations about Voldemort. Harry now knows, which objects 
Voldemort would take as Horcruxes. He also should have at least a 
vague idea, where to search for them, since this was one reason, why 
Dumbledore showed him several stations of Voldemort's life. Voldemort 
hid them in places, to which he felt some connection.

And about destroying them. Well, Harry was able to destroy the diary. 
We don't know how many Horcruxes are as much protected as the locket 
was. Maybe at least some are easier to reach and destroy. And about 
the defense skills. I think he has as much as one can expect from a 
teenager, and probably more than most adult wizards have. They should 
at least be helpful, although I agree that they probably aren't 
enough to destroy all the Horcruxes.