Harry Horcrux redux :)

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 155055

Brothergib;

As to the fifth Horcrux - it has to be Nagini.
LV's snakelike appearance is surely evidence of this.

Peggy Wilkins wrote;
I think this does not follow.  Dumbledore states that he believes
> Voldemort's altered appearance was due to his having damaged his 
soul
> so severely: he went beyond "ordinary evil" in murdering so many 
times
> and making his multiple Horcruxes, and his altered (severely 
damaged)
> soul was reflected in an altered physical appearance.  About the
> possibility of making Nagini into one of his Horcruxes, Dumbledore
> says: "As we know, he failed [to kill you at Godric's Hollow].  
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."  (p.506 again)
> 
> So it is Dumbledore's belief that if Nagini is a Horcrux, she was 
made
> into one "some years" after Godric's Hollow.  
 
Brothergib;
And if we follow the timeline - when LV talks to DD in the 
chapter 'Lord Voldemort's request' in HBP he is not yet snakelike. 
When he appears on the back of Quirrel's head, he is snakelike! He 
clearly would not be able to make a Horcrux as the ethereal being he 
has been since GH, therefore the Nagini horcrux was made before GH.
> 

Peggy Wilkins wrote;
> I don't believe this conclusion is correct for the reason given 
above:
> Voldemort's appearance is explained without requiring him to have
> Nagini as a Horcrux.
> 

I think you need to give a bit more explanation for the last comment. 
As I said there was evidence of LV creating Horcruxes when he appears 
at Hogwarts to ask DD for a job. DD's explanation of LV's altered 
appearance could refer to his appearance at this point. When he then 
reappears in the cemetry he is snakelike. So something has happened 
to make him snakelike - the most obvious reason being sharing a soul 
piece with a snake.

Brothergib