Harry Horcrux redux :)

[Constance Vigilance]

No: HPFGUIDX 155061

> Carol wrote in response to Brothergib:

> 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
> a Horcrux because he didn't yet have the knowledge. He *may* have
> acquired it at Borgin and Burke's, or on a visit to Grindelwald 
before
> Dumbledore defeated him (by, IMO, destroying his Horcrux). 
> 

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CV: But (unless it's movie contamination), Diary!Tom knows that 
Voldy did something to ensure his immortality. Diary!Tom's knowledge 
seems to be stuck at age 16 because he knows nothing about the 
defeat of his elder self, Harry's existance or Hagrid's continuation 
at Hogwarts or much of anything. It's as if Tom worked on the diary 
up until he was 16, then completely abandoned it thereafter. Diary!
Tom does know about Myrtle because that's what he used to frame 
Hagrid. We have a magical object that ended up as a horcrux that 
knows that its owner has done something already to ensure his 
immortality and that a death has occured conveniently at that time. 
I have to believe that young Tom was resourceful enough to figure it 
out by the time he was 16. 

~ CV