Lord Voldemort's Six Horcruxes? Are Dumbledore’s Opinions Wrong? (LVs SHADOW)

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 146898

According to DD, Voldemort has made six Horcruxes and he confidently 
identifies four of these Horcruxes.
1.	Diary (destroyed)
2.	Slytherin's ring (destroyed)
3.	Slytherin's necklace
4.	Hufflepuff's cup

DD then uses guesswork to predict that another Horcrux must be an 
object of Ravenclaw's (Horcrux 5).  DD is also confident that 
Voldemort was intending to make the final Horcrux with Harry's death.
`
 I am sure that he was intending to make his final Horcrux with 
your death.
As we know he failed. After an interval of some years, however, he 
used Nagini to kill an old Muggle man, and it might have occurred to 
him to turn her into his last Horcrux
' P473 HBP
DD therefore predicts that Horcrux 6 must have been Nagini.

However, let us look at the timeline for the creation of Voldemort's 
Horcruxes. If we consider Voldemort during the chapter `Lord 
Voldemort's request' in HBP.
`
Voldemort had entered the room.  His features were not those Harry 
had seen emerge from the great stone cauldron almost two years 
before; they were not as snakelike, the eyes were not yet scarlet, 
the face not yet masklike, and yet he was no longer handsome Tom 
Riddle. It was as though his features had been burned and blurred;  
they were waxy and oddly distorted, and the whites of the eyes now 
had a permanently bloody look, though the pupils were not yet the 
slits that Harry knew they would become
' P413 HBP

At this point, it is safe to assume that Voldemort has made his first 
four Horcruxes. He has certainly gained all four objects by this 
point and he looks considerably different to the Tom Riddle who 
called on Hepzbiah Smith. It is also important to note, that he does 
not look snakelike at this point.

In terms of the timeline, the next time we get a physical description 
of Voldemort is at the end of PS/SS.
`Where there should have been a back to Quirrel's head, there was a 
face, the most terrible face Harry had ever seen. It was chalk white 
with glaring red eyes and slits for nostrils, like a snake.'   P212 
PS/SS
So Voldemort has now gained his snakelike appearance.

So ,in terms of Horcruxes, what happens between the events of `Lord 
Voldemort's request' from HBP and `The Man with Two Faces' in PS/SS. 
1.	Voldemort makes a fifth Horcrux.
2.	Voldemort enters Godric's Hollow with the intention of making 
his 6th Horcrux.
3.	Voldemort loses his physical body, and lives a spectral 
existence until his appearance on the back of Quirrel's head.
Therefore, when Voldemort appears with Quirrel, logic suggests that 
Voldemort only has 5 Horcruxes. Voldemort only had 5 when he entered 
Godric's Hollow, and has not been in a position to make another 
Horcrux since this point.
VOLDEMORT'S SNAKELIKE FEATURES ARE THEREFORE COMPLETELY ATTRIBUTABLE 
TO HORCRUX 5!!
IMO, DD was wrong. Nagini was made a Horcrux before the events at 
Godric's Hollow – not after them.  It is the Nagini Horcrux that 
gives Voldemort his snakelike appearance. Nagini is Horcrux 5.

So what of Horcrux 6? I do not believe that there is a Horcrux 6 as 
yet. I believe that Voldemort was trying to secure the prophecy in an 
attempt to make it his final Horcrux. On learning of the prophecy's 
destruction, Voldemort attempts to kill Harry – this does not tally 
with the theory that Voldemort wanted to use the prophecy to learn 
how to destroy Harry.  

With DD gone, I would assume that Voldemort will now turn his 
attention to the `item of Gryffindor's' and attempt to procure the 
sword (or hat) from Hogwarts. Perhaps we may even witness the Horcrux 
making process in book 7 (hopefully unsuccessfully!).

Brothergib