the Horcruxes

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 140179


> n_longbottom01:
> 
> 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 magic 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?
> 
> rtbthw_mom:
> 
> I have wondered this, too, but decided that perhaps there's not 
> enough of his soul left to split anymore <snip>
> ~Pat

Valky:
IMO this is a plausible explanation as to why Voldemort ordered his
DE's *not* to kill Harry. As Pat says here, Voldie surely knows there
are limits to how many times he can separate pieces of his soul into
containers, but he does know he's one Horcrux down now. So he might
decide that if he wants the Diary replaced taking his number back to
seven as far as he knows, then the death of the person who destroyed
it is the worthy way to do the job right. 

There ae definitely plentiful reasns for Voldemort to consider Harry's
death to be a significant event for his hand only, this is definitely
one of them I think. It gives Snape a nice neat reason for protecting
Harry at the end of HBP no matter which side of the fence one falls on. 



rtbthw_mom (Pat):
> On the other part of n_longbottom01's message, referring to the 
> horcruxes being "hidden in plain sight:"  does anyone else think it 
> possible, considering that some of them may be hidden at Hogwarts, 
> that Dobby and Kreacher could come in handy to find any of those?


Valky:
I am sure that more than one of them is. The real exception here is, I
think, the Hufflepuff cup. IMO it's likely that we haven't actully
*seen* this in plain sight, but its hiding place, OTOH, I would bet we
have seen.

This is my own list so far of Horcrux things:

The Diary - Harry destroyed. Alludes to the myth of the Basilsk and
the Weasel. 

The Locket - Has gone through the veil with Sirius. I believe the
Locket story alludes to myth of Hecate Underworld Goddess with heads
of Dog(Sirius)/Lion(Regulus)/Snake(Voldemort) or
Bear(Regulus)/Horse(Snape)/Dog(Sirius). 
Black Dogs were sacrificed to Hecate. 

The Ring - Dumbledore, Snape and possibly Harry in the end destroyed.
Dumbledores part alludes to the Myth of the Phoenix and the Snake -
Eternal enemies.
Harry's part alludes to the myth of Hercules defeating the Nemean
lion. Hercules uses his bare hands to overcome the lion in a cave with
the entrance blocked. Afterwards Hercules is ever wearing the Lions
impenetrable skin as a coat and its head as a Helmet. 

The Ravenclaw Object: A wand, possibly hidden in the secret magic that
Harry sensed in Ollivanders. Possibly alludes to the myth of Hydra
(nine snake heads) and Hercules. Hydra was banished with a *Raven* in
the sky. When Hercules finds Hydra he is attacked by a Crab (Crabbe?)
His companion (nephew) comes up with a way to stop the Hydra's heads
growing back (Ron and Hermione?)

I am still trying to locate myths that construe into the following, I
am open to ideas. 

The Hufflepuff Chalice -  I was thinking Wolves (Huff(and I)lepuff)
and Tricksters (Badger) but I am still open to another direction..

Nagini - I am with Dumbleore on this one.  

Voldemort - Stands to reason.

?Harry? - Could allude to the Ouroborous myth, Voldemort accidentally
makes 8 Horcruxes not 7, creating is his own undoing.

Valky