Horcrux predictions (Was: JKR's Ambiguities)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 139787

 
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> zgirnius:
> I kind of like the Sorting Hat as Horcrux theory, it *does* have some 
> nice irony as you point out in the part I snipped. But does the 
timing 
> you suggest work well? This would mean that Riddle had made at least 
> two Horcruxes before leaving school, right?

Hickengruendler:

Not necessarily. We don't know when Riddle made the diary and the ring 
a Horcrux. He stole the ring from Morfin as some sort of trophy, but 
this was before he learned from Slughorn more about the Horcruxes. That 
means the ring became later a Horcrux, maybe much later. It's very well 
possible that Tom decided to make the Sorting Hat his first Horcrux, 
because he knew that he might not have much time to get his hands on it 
anymore, while the ring and the diary are in his posession, and he 
therefore could bewitch them anytime. 

Also, at this time he killed already at least four people: His father, 
his grandparents and Moaning Myrtle. Even if Myrtle doesn't count (I`m 
not sure about it) his soul should have already split three times, and 
he therefore had already the opportunity to make more than one Horcrux.