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

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 147284


> Carol:
> I agree that LV had not yet made Nagini into a Horcrux when he had 
the
> DADA interview. But are you sure that he was actually recruiting
> followers other than his few old friends at that point? Maybe he 
still
> had some traveling to do--and some Horcruxes to make. 

I think the fact that he wanted the DADA position suggests that he 
had finished with his travelling.  I always assumed that 
the 'travelling' was how he learned to create Horcruxes - clearly not 
something he could learn in books. 


> And he couldhave made Nagini a Horcrux at any time between that 
interview and
> Godric's Hollow. He could easily have had the fifth (Ravenclaw)
> Horcrux as well, with Nagini as the sixth. (I think it's that small
> point on which DD is wrong; he thinks that Nagini was made into a
> Horcrux after Voldemort's body was restored, but I think it had to 
be sooner.)

Yes, we seem to completely agree on this point (see the initial 
post). With the exception that I don't think any item of Ravenclaw's 
can be found. Therefore Nagini, IMO, was Horcrux 5.
> 
> You say that he wasn't snakelike when he returned from his travels,
> but you're assuming that his travels were over when he had the DADA
> interview. But do we know when that interview occurred? How long or
> short a time passed between that interview and the beginning of VW1?
> Even if that interview (when his features were blurred and he had
> created at least four Horcruxes) occurred immediately before VW1
> began, he still had eleven years to go before Godric's Hollow--
plenty of time for more murders and more Horcruxes.

I think that Voldemort knew the sword was at Hogwarts and was willing 
to be incredibly patient in his quest to obtain it to convert to a 
Horcrux. I think LV regarded himself as invincible, and it wasn't 
until the prophecy was made that LV got stressed and felt vulnerable 
and quickly made Nagini a Horcrux, which allowed him to use Harry's 
death for the last Horcrux.

Brothergib