[HPforGrownups] Re: Sorting Hat as Horcrux? (Was: Voldemort's chat with Dumbledore)

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 143228


Saturday, November 19, 2005, 6:41:16 AM, mercurybluesmng wrote:

m> What makes you think I like the idea? I have absolutely no clue as to
m> how Harry can eliminate that Horcrux without torching the Hat. We do
m> kinda need the Hat to survive intact. (Presuming Hogwarts reopens...)

Dave:
Not if (as I'm half-expecting to happen) the Hogwarts Houses are
abolished at the end of the series.

MercuryBlue:
m> Sixteen-year-old Memory!Tom IS a Horcrux. Or more accurately, he is
m> the soul fragment attached to the diary. How can he NOT have known
m> that he'd already made a Horcrux?

Dave:
He might not -- If a significant amount of time elapsed between the
murder and the Horcrux creation (see below).

MercuryBlue:
m> Voldemort uses 'significant' murders to create the Horcruxes. How he
m> or anyone can tell one soul fragment from another (nobody can see the
m> soul, remember) is utterly beyond me. Ergo, to be sure the Horcrux is
m> created with the fragment torn loose by a particular murder, it MUST
m> be created right after the murder.

Dave:
Not necessarily *right after* -- I think there could be a time delay.
I just imagine that it would have to be the *most recent* murder.

-- 
Dave