Horcrux predictions (Was: JKR's Ambiguities)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 139784

 
> 
> Amiable Dorsai:
> But you know, the sword *isn't* the only known relic of Godric
> Gryffindor--there's also the Sorting Hat.
> 
> Isn't it interesting that Dumbledore overlooked that?  
> 
> A couple of things:  1)Armando Dippet liked and trusted Tom 
Riddle.  I
> can easily imagine Riddle spending unsupervised time in the
> Headmaster's office, as Harry has done.  2) Magical artifacts, like
> the Goblet of Fire, and, presumably, the Sorting Hat, can be
> confunded. So If Riddle managed to make the Hat a Horcrux, the Hat
> wouldn't necessarily know.  3) The trace of magic left be the
> Horcrux-making process would be masked by the Hat's own magic, so it
> would be difficult to detect.  4)The Hat is a treasured artifact in 
a
> very secure place.  Imagine the irony of one of the Horcruxes being
> guarded by the Hogwarts Headmaster--if Riddle has any sort of a 
sense
> of humor, that had to appeal to him. 
> 
> Amiable Dorsai

Hickengruendler:

I agree about the Sorting Hat being a Horcrux, but for another 
reason. Both the Sorting Hat and Dumbledore warned the students, that 
dividing them is wrong and that they only have a chance to survive, 
if they unite. And yet the Hat is the very same artefact that does 
divide the students. If the Sorting Hat does not exist anymore, than 
there won't be any Sorting process anymore, at least not as we know 
it. After all, it isn't just some object that was bewitched, in it is 
a part of the essence of the four founders included, and I am not 
sure, if they would be able to get that essence, once the Hat is 
destroyed. Therefore the Sorting Hat being a Horcrux that needs to be 
destroyed makes a lot of sense in a symbolic way, IMO.