[HPforGrownups] Protective curses on horcuxes

[Rebecca Scalf]

No: HPFGUIDX 150814


>Len Jaffe wrote:


>The diary did not have any apparent anti-destruction
>cures upon it (else the powerfully magical basilisk
>fang / residual poison acted as a curse breaker), but
>the ring had enough of a curse on it to cost DD his
>arm, and we can presume that DD was a fairly adept
>cursebreaker (CB).

>So how on Earth can HRH assume that they'll be able to
>just destroy the remaining horcuxes.  

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Witherwing:
If Harry does get additional training, I don't think
we will get to read much about it... Only one more
book to go, after all. 

I think Harry already has all he needs. How could he
possibly have known a basilisk fang had the power to
destroy a horcrux? 

Here is the quote:
"Then, without thinking, without considering, as
though he had meant to do it all along, Harry seized
the basilisk fang on the floor next to him and plunged
it straight into the heart of the book." -HPCS p.322

It's his instinct, isn't it?

-Witherwing