Horcruxes - The One Who Got It Right?

[exodusts]

No: HPFGUIDX 148118

> bboyminn:
> 
> No it wasn't me, thought I have spoken on the subject a time or 
two. 
> 
> Just before HBP was released someone on this list proposed the idea 
of
> hiding a persons soul or heart in an object. They even sited 
examples
> of mythology and legend from various cultures around the world; 
amoung
> them Russian, I believe. 
> 
> The idea generated very little discussion, and I personally thought 
it
> was extremely unlikely. But then I was the person who said that the
> one person who absolutely could not and would not die in OotP was
> Sirius Black. 
> 
> I don't think any would mind if that person stepped forward and 
took a
> well deserved bow, and if possible, referenced us back to that
> original post. I've searched for it in the past, but haven't been 
able
> to find it.
> 
>

Exodusts:

I had a look, and I think the credit goes to Vivian/vmonte, in this 
post:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/132161

***START*132161***
Saraquel wrote:
In the Edinburgh interview, JK said this is what we should think
about:
"There are two questions that I have never been asked but that I
should have been asked, if you know what I mean. <snip> "Why
didn't Voldemort die?" Not, "Why did Harry live?" but, "Why didn't
Voldemort die?" The killing curse rebounded, so he should have died.
Why didn't he? At the end of Goblet of Fire he says that one or more
of the steps that he took enabled him to survive. You should be
wondering what he did to make sure that he did not die— <snip> but you
should be asking yourself that question, particularly now that you
know about the prophesy."

vmonte responds:
Isn't there a legend or fable that talks about a man that becomes
immortal because he keeps his soul hidden in a box? (Did I make this
up?)
Vivian
***END*132161***

Follow up replies mention similar things, in the Firebird story and 
the Chronicles of Prydain, but Karen Barker gets closest to the truth 
with this speculation indirectly fingering the Diary as a Horcrux:

"Well Lucius Malfoy apparently has a lot of LV's "old school stuff" 
and Harry and Ron know where it's hidden too, after the polyjuice 
episode: under the floorboards in 'Malfoy Towers'.  Perhaps he is 
Voldy's secret keeper and soul storer."