I think I know what one of the horcruxes is.
Constance Vigilance
ConstanceVigilance at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 03:50:42 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 148219
The Gryffindor horcrux. What could it be? JKR has said it is not the
hat. It could be the sword. It could be something we haven't seen
yet. But here is my guess - I think it is Godric's Hollow itself. I
think Voldy intended to build a horcrux into the Godric's ancestral
house and intended to populate it with Harry's death. I think he got
through the preparations and then got, um, interrupted, resulting in
the destruction of the broken horcrux.
This would answer a question the readers have had since the first
book - why did the house collapse under the failed killing curse? We
have seen the results of two horcruxes which were destroyed. The
diary ruptured and bled ink. The ring cracked. When a horcrux is
destroyed, it loses its structure. The collapsed house sounds like
it has had something similar happen, yes?
And I think creating a horcrux in Griffindor's house would appeal to
Voldy's sense of irony. He, as the last member of the House of
Slytherin, maintaining immortality with the aid of the house of
Gryffindor. Also, the house would likely to be held in a degree of
reverence by Voldy's enemies. They would be likely to want to
protect this place at all costs.
Something has been bothering me about the horcrux count, though.
If Voldy was going to make his 6th and final horcrux with the
killing of Harry, and that failed, then there should be two Voldy
bits floating around, no? The bit that didn't become the horcrux and
the one he intended to keep in his body. I'm thinking that now that
he is corporeal again, he could have made horcruxes to replace the
lost ones, if he knows they are lost. But in his first pass, I'm
thinking there must have been one less horcrux than Dumbledore
thinks. Does anyone agree?
CV
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