Sorting Hat as Horcrux?

[mercurybluesmng]

No: HPFGUIDX 143292

CH3ed:
> I really don't think the Sorting Hat is a horcrux. It seems very 
unlikely that LV had learned how to make one before he graduated and 
as far as we know he had had no access to it after he did.

MercuryBlue:
The diary Horcrux, may I remind you, was created when he was SIXTEEN. 
Nobody graduates until they're at least closing on EIGHTEEN.

CH3ed:
>   Also, as DD said, the horcrux is something to hide, ay? To put 
away in a safe place...with the exception of the Riddle diary. The 
Sorting Hat is too exposed and too unprotected.

MercuryBlue:
Value-added bonus for Riddle regarding the Sorting Hat as a potential 
Horcrux: He doesn't have to expend any effort to protect it. Everyone 
else will do it for him. It IS an important part of the only magical 
school in the British Isles, after all.

> Amontillada:
> I find that to be the main reason why it couldn't be a Horcrux: it's
> hard to believe that even Voldemort could place a soul fragment in
> such a magically powerful object without touching off the magic 
that's
> already there.

MercuryBlue:
Do we know that?

> Amontillada:
> Memory!Tom didn't know anything which had happened after he was
> attached to the diary. Of course, we weren't told when CoS was 
written
> that he was actually a Horcrux. But to stretch that idea, I suggest
> that this soul fragment didn't know what happened after the killing
> that ripped it from the rest of Tom/Voldemort's soul. It couldn't be
> made a Horcrux until after the killing took place, so that was
> something it couldn't know.

MercuryBlue:
Shredded souls seem to function perfectly normally until one of the 
shreds is separated from the rest. I'll accept that Diary!Tom is in a 
blank about anything that happened after the creation of the Horcrux, 
but he MUST know what happened after the murder(s) that allowed the 
Horcrux to be created. His whole Chamber adventure, after all, was in 
between.

MercuryBlue