[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort killed personally?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 157157


Tinktonks:
s> Is this a clue? Is DD's mistake (something that is pretty darn rare) 
s> JKR's way of sneakily telling the reader that you don't need an AK to 
s> create a Horcrux?

Dave:
Perhaps, but it throws a monkey wrench into the whole theory that I
was about to propose on what constitutes a "murder", as far as
Horcruxes are concerned.  Namely, that Horcruxes can only be made from
an AK, and an AK can only be cast with "murderous" intent -- In other
words, AK can't be cast in self-defense or what Bellatrix refers to as
"righteous anger".

Tinktonks
s> Even though FB was AK'd (or so it would appear 
s> given the green light although the words were not destinguishable 
s> over the scream) DD does not think he was and still believes it is 
s> possible for a Horcrux to have been made from this murder.

Dave:
Actually, what DD says is:

  "After an interval of some years, however, he used Nagini to kill
   an old Muggle man, and it might then have occurred to him to turn
   her into his last Horcrux."  -- HBP, USA Ed., p. 506.

The way I read this, Nagini killing this "old Muggle man" (who BTW I'm
not convinced is Frank) only gave him the *idea* to make her into a
Horcrux... It doesn't mean that he used *this* death to make it.
Indeed, I have a lot of trouble believing LV would ever use the death
of a ragamuffin, of-no-consequence Muggle to make *any* Horcrux.  As
DD tells us, LV uses only really important murders to make his
Horcruxes.

-- 
Dave