Harry Horcrux redux :)

[esmith222002]

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> Carol responds:
> I agree with everything you say here except that I don't think Tom
> Riddle created any Horcruxes while he was still at Hogwarts. He
> wouldn't have had the knowledge, and Dumbledore (though he wasn't 
yet
> the headmaster) was adamant that Horcruxes not be taught and would,
> IMO, have policed the restricted section to be sure that information
> was not available. I think that the diary at this point was already 
a Dark object intended to seduce the reader into opening the Chamber 
of Secrets and releasing the Basilisk to kill "Mudbloods," but it was 
not Horcrux because he didn't yet have the knowledge. 

Brothergib writes;
Yes that makes sense. I think it often a mistake that I (and others) 
often make not to seperate the object and what it does from the fact 
that the object is a Horcrux. Also if he did it at Hogwarts, then it 
surely would have had some effect on his appearance, and maybe DD 
would have picked up on that.

Carol writes;
> Another point that I've made before but don't recall any responses 
to
> is that Wormtail uses Nagini's venom (along with unicorn blood) to
> create the potion that creates Voldemort's fetal form, and "milks" 
her
> to provide more venom to sustain the monstrous fetus/infant. Nagini,
> IOW, is a surrogate mother to Baby!mort, a horrible parody of the
> mother/child bond depicted elsewhere in the books. (Will she die in 
a
> futile attempt to defend her monstrous "child"?) Dumbledore points 
out
> the strength of the bond between Nagini and Voldemort, which he 
thinks
> can only be explained if she's a Horcrux, and I agree. I think that
> he'd be certain that she's a Horcrux if he knew about the uses to
> which her venom has been put. (How could her venom help to create a
> rudimentary body for him, and how could even Voldemort not only
> survive drinking it but require it for sustenance if she didn't 
share
> a bit of his soul?)

Brothergib writes;
Another excellent point and more evidence for Nagini Horcrux. Playing 
Devil's advocate - what did Nagini do for all the years that 
Voldemort was Vapormort? And why did he suddenley reappear? And why 
didn't Voldemort possess Nagini to contact death eaters or to give 
himeself a body (sort of). And finally, is it simply a case of 
killing Nagini to destroy the Horcrux?