[HPforGrownups] Why keep the horcrux ring? (was: Possible source of DD's hand injury)

[Bev & Gary]

No: HPFGUIDX 139681



  KathyK:
  > Interesting.  My main question about this would be, why would 
  > Dumbledore need to hold onto the ring?  

  SSSusan:
  I'm not sure I'm right about this, but... is it possible that DD wanted 
  to hang onto it *because* he knew Slughorn would recognize it?  Perhaps DD thought coming face to face with the artifact 
  which had held one of Voldy's horcruxes (horcruces?) would prove 
  persuasive?

  Or am I way off base there? ;-)

  Beverly replies:

  I don't think you are off base, Susan.  I believe Dumbledore wore that ring when he visited Slughorn for a reason.  If you'll remember, in the pensieve scene of the "Sluggish Memory," Tom Riddle is wearing the ring in Slughorn's presence.  Harry makes a note of it and thinks "Voldemort has already killed his father."
  So, Slughorn has seen Tom Riddle wearing the ring and even though we don't know whether or not Slughorn knows or suspects it is a horcrux, it will interest him and grab his attention.  Then, to see that *same* ring on Dumbledore's hand...well, it has to register.  

  Dumbledore doesn't do anything of that magnitude just because.  There is a reason.  What is that reason?  To give Slughorn a little jolt to show that Dumbledore is on the trail of Voldemort and if old Sluggy has any information about Voldy, then he needs to be forthcoming.

  Bev.






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