the horcruxes

[Matt]

No: HPFGUIDX 140094

>> mojonono8:
>> I can't find any place where people want to discuss 
>> the horcruxes.  I am obsessed with the unknown ones.  
>> JKR mentioned in an interview that she was expecting 
>> someone to post the ones that are "revealed" in HBP.  
> 
> Amiable Dorsai:
> So, let's post a list. Just off the top of my head, 
> we have:
> 
> Known Horcruxes:
> Tom Riddle's diary--killed
> Slytherin's locket--active

Notes on locket: 
1) Might or might not be an active horcrux.  RAB note says RAB planned
to destroy it.
2) Significant fan speculation that this is the "heavy locket none of
them could open" that the cleanup crew discovered in the drawing room
at 12 Grimmauld Place.  This could also be what JKR was referring to
in the publication-day interview when she said "I'm prepared to bet
you now that before the week is out at least one of the Horcruxes will
have been correctly identified by careful re-readers of the books."

> The Gaunt's ring--killed
> Hufflepuff's Cup--active

Note: It is only Dumbledore's speculation that the cup is a horcrux,
though that speculation is at least well-grounded in the reasonably
good evidence that Tom acquired the cup at the same time he acquired
the locket.

> Mentioned by Dumbledore as possibility:
> Nagini
> Something of Ravenclaw's
> Something of Gryffindor's
> 
> Fan speculation:
> Sorting Hat
> Sword of Gryffindor
> Harry
> Harry's scar
> Ginny (scotched by JKR)
> 
> What have I missed?  I remember that someone mentioned 
> an object Harry saw in the Room of Requirement while it 
> was in "Attic" mode, but I don't recall what it was.

I can't remember who suggested it, but the specific speculation was
about the tiara that Harry uses to mark the location of the HBP book
in chapter 24.  There was also more general speculation that one or
more horcruxes -- whatever they are -- might be concealed in this
"Hiding Place" version of the Room of Requirement.

I think I also have read speculation about Tom's award for special
services to the school being a horcrux.

-- Matt