Horcrux predictions (Was: JKR's Ambiguities)

[Susan O'Bones]

No: HPFGUIDX 139754

> catkind: 
> She [JKR] did say somewhere that we should be able to work out 
> "at least" one of the Horcruxes.  Though I think that is the 
> Grimmauld Place one, and theories about the others may be a 
> little beyond the second-guessable. She's also said that she 
> phrased the prophecy very carefully, though obviously we've yet 
> to see how that plays out.


I think one of the Horcruces is Gryffindor's sword, known to be 
the only remaining relic of Godric Gryffindor.  Supposedly it's 
been "safe" in the Headmaster's office all this time.

But is it???

We now know that Tom Riddle worked in B&B for a while right after 
he left school, and that there was a secret back door from there 
into Hogwarts thru the linked vanishing cabinets, that only a few 
years ago stopped functioning.  

Tom could have got into the school any time he wanted, & roamed around at will in an invisibility cloak.  I bet he could have 
found a way into the headmaster's office... which might have been 
an easier task those first few years while Dippet was still Head -- 
who was presumably not as powerful a wiz as Dumbledore, the well-
known Most Powerful.  Maybe Tom had his eye on that sword the first 
time he asked for the DADA job, then found (or arranged) the B&B 
passageway after he was turned down.

I think all of this adds up.  In my book the GGSword!Horcrux stock has shot way up.

Susan O'Bones