What if the GH House Was the Intended Horcrux?

[rebecca]

No: HPFGUIDX 151272

So, I've wondered about this and I thought I'd share some flash of momentary 
insight and questions with you all. Yes, yes, I'm sure you understand that 
when these thoughts come upon a person, one feels compelled to share in the 
hopes that others might have input, too. Welcome to rollercoaster ride of 
possibilities!  Mayhem will surely ensue.

In the first book, Hagrid makes a statement to Dumbledore that I have 
wondered about:

"No, sir -- house was almost destroyed, but I got him out all right before 
the Muggles started swarmin' around. He fell asleep as we was flyin' over 
Bristol."



I've seen before where folks here and elsewhere have asked about this, 
speculated, and debated how Lord Voldemort's failed AK could have caused an 
explosion of the house.  We've seen how curses which rebound affect the 
objects around them in numerous books, CoS, OoP and HBP to name a few. But 
what if, what IF, Harry wasn't intended to be a LV's Horcrux at all? Could 
the GH house itself have been Godric Gryffindor's actual home at one time? 
Couldn't the house have been the intended Horcrux and subsequently failed to 
keep that fragment of LV's soul inside?   Wouldn't it be like Lord Voldemort 
to covet it if he knew it were Godric Gryffindor's ancestral home? And 
wouldn't it be like JKR to put a major Horcrux in plain sight?



I ask this because it appears that Grimmauld Place had been in the Black 
family for many years - I am not saying that the GH house was in the Potter 
family (as in related to GG) but it is possible one could have purchased it. 
Likewise, look at LV's placing of the Slytherin ring *inside* the Gaunt 
home; that home was special enough to him to place the ring there.  The same 
applies for the locket in the cave: places are almost as important as 
"things" to the Dark Lord.



If you're LV at the height of his power, why not skip the Horcrux object and 
place a fragment of your soul directly in the those ancestral walls which 
belonged to a Founder?  What if everything went wrong when you went to do 
it, and your last soul fragment failed to be contained by the home? 
De-stroyed.



What if your soul did split, but not necessarily as you intended it to - it 
wasn't a "clean" split like you'd done before? Seems to me you might float 
about less than the meanest spirit.....and you'd be left with one power 
(possession) while some thing or some ONE got some of your other innate 
talents. Something to ponder there, hm?



rebecca, who wonders if the Riddle House was always in the Riddle family, 
too