[HPforGrownups] Horcrux dispatching (was Re: Harry's Soul with Harry as horcrux)

[Phil Vlasak]

No: HPFGUIDX 155454

 > > Mike:
> <SNIP>
> > > Another case: he never told Harry how to  destroy a
> > > Horcrux, despite the fact that he promised to expand on the  
> > > Ring Horcrux story. Is this not an important piece of
> > > knowledge?  
> >  <snip>
> 
> > Alla:
> 
> > Oh, totally, that is one of the most  important reasons I never 
> > bought Dumbledore wanted to die on the Tower  argument. 
>  
> Julie:
> I agree that DD really didn't tell Harry how to destroy a horcrux. 
> He *showed* Harry how in the cave, but without any verbal         
> explanations about what he was doing.
<snip>
> But are you saying that Dumbledore led Harry through
> the task of destroying the horcrux, intending to later verbally   
> explain the mechanics of each step he took?
<snip>
> But I think it's less likely Dumbledore intended to explain       
> further  later than that Dumbledore knew Harry would not need 
> to know the exact step by step mechanics he used to hunt down
> that particular horcrux. 
>

  Mike here:
  Julie, are you mixing up Horcrux hunting with destroying Horcruxes? 
  Because Dumbledore didn't even get a Horcrux from the cave much less 
  destroy one.

  Julie again:
  > But I also think horcrux hunting in the way Dumbledore performed  
  > it in HBP won't happen in the Book 7. Been there, done that, after 
  > all, and JKR isn't one to repeat herself, especially when she has 
  > about a thousand other things to deal with in Book 7! Certainly   
  > the rest of the horcruxes will be addressed and destroyed, but    
  > probably in a manner and perhaps with an expediency we can't yet  
  > fathom ;-)

  Mike again:
  I agree, there won't be a lot of paragraphs wasted on the great 
  Horcrux hunt. But if, as you say, the rest of the Horcruxes must be 
  destroyed, I didn't see DD give Harry any lessons, verbal or non-
  verbal, on how to do it. Like I questioned elsewhere, maybe 
  destroying Horcruxes is the easy step in this whole process and 
  Harry doesn't need any lessons on the destruction part. Maybe the 
  whole trick is getting your hands on the things, avoiding or getting 
  around any spells/booby-traps that LV set up to protect the things. 
  But we have no indication in canon that this is the case. That's why 
  Alla and I, amongst many others, think DD left Harry in the lurch on 
  this point. Dumbledore, who is powerfully magical and infinitely 
  more learned than Harry, got a whithered hand from destroying one 
  Horcrux. Harry's got four to go, but only two hands last I 
  remembered. Maybe this is where Ron and Hermione lend a hand! (Ooh, 
  that was bad!)
  <g>

  Now Phil:
  Harry knows how to dispatch a Horcrux, as he did it with the poisonous magical Basilisk fang.
   Now what poisonous creature does Harry know of from the last book? And after it died, someone got some good quality venom from it?
  Aragog
  And Harry knows something that could possibly suck part of a soul from a Horcrux.
  A dementor. 
  Could Harry use the Imperius Curse to get a dementor to do the job?
  Phil


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