the horcruxes

[n_longbottom01]

No: HPFGUIDX 140116

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amiabledorsai" 
<amiabledorsai at y...> wrote:
> 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
> The Gaunt's ring--killed
> Hufflepuff's Cup--active
> 
> 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.
> 
> Amiable Dorsai

n_longbottom01:

I don't know how many of the horcruxes we should expect Harry to have 
already seen.  I like the idea that Slytherin's locket was the same 
locket that Harry saw when helping to clean up Grimmauld Place, but 
that horcrux had previously been well hidden and well protected.  It 
was only laying around for Harry to find because R.A.B. took it from 
the cave with the intention of destroying it, and didn't get a chance 
to destroy it (or so the theory goes).

Maybe some of the horcruxes are "hidden within plain sight," but I 
expect that at least some of them are going to be well hidden and 
well protected like the locket was.  And if they are well hidden and 
protected by curses, then Harry (and the reader) probably hasn't seen 
them yet. 

Also... is there anything that says that Voldemort can't have made a 
new horcrux by now?  He wants his soul to be split into seven parts 
because seven is a powerful magical number.  If he knows the diary 
was destroyed in the chamber of secrets, he knows his soul is only 
split into six parts.  Would he create a new horcrux to bring the 
number back up to seven?

n_longbottom01