Sorting Hat as Horcrux? (Was: Voldemort's chat with Dumbledore)

[ornadv]

No: HPFGUIDX 143214

>Carol:

>I disagree, though, that the Horcrux has to be created immediately
>after the murder. Tom Riddle was wearing the ring when he asked
>Slughorn about Horcruxes, indicating that he had already murdered 
his
>father and grandparents. He had also already "written" the diary 
that
>preserved his sixteen-year-old self inside it; that was written near
>the end of his fifth year.

Orna:
I agree. That means that somehow during the encasement spell, the 
wizard has to intent a specific part-soul, connected with a specific 
murder to be encased. That begins to sound like some negative form 
of prayer, or twisted form of memorial to the deceased.


>Carol:
>He likes his Horcruxes to be valuable and not
>subject to decay, objects made of silver or gold, not shabby old 
hats.

>Carol, who thinks the unidentified Horcrux is the tiara Harry placed
>on top of the HBP's Potions book so he can find it again

Orna:
If there are enough jewels on it, he would prefer it to the battered 
old hat, as you said. Got any idea whose tiara it was, on whose 
wedding it was used? It wouldn't be his parents, as it was a runaway 
wedding, and I don't suppose Merope had anything more than the 
locket. Something to do with Ravenclaw?  Do we know anything more 
about Ravenclaw, besides brains?
And another thought – the room of retirement is a good and bad 
hiding-place. Because, on one hand you can't find it, unless you 
know what you are looking for. But on the other hand, every time you 
want to hide something – and as we see, lot's of people want to do 
it – you just get there. Now, I see that if you get there for your 
own reasons, you wouldn't be likely to spot an object, which has 
been placed there by somebody else. Like Harry doesn't spot the 
cabinet, he sees there. But a tiara? It already sticks out. And 
waits to be remembered, when anybody will mention to Harry an 
occurrence where a beautiful tiara was part of it. So, I think that 
it might be it, but it could also be just a red herring. Or Eileen 
Prince's wedding memoir <g>.

Orna