Horcrux musings

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 154042

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Wendy Dupuy <winkadup at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> amanitamuscaria1 <saraandra at ...> wrote:
> >> I was pondering on Horcruxes, and how they would play
> out.
> So far, we've got:
> #1 The ?Slytherin? Locket - R.A.B.?
> #2 Riddle's Diary - Harry
> #3 The Peverell Ring - Dumbledore/Snape
> #4 ?Helga Hufflepuff's Cup?
> #5 ?Ravenclaw?
> #6 ?Gryffindor?
> #7 Voldemort - has to be Harry, but not necessarily Harry
> alone. <snip> <<
> 
> Wendy:
> Could the Horcruxe for Gryffindor be the sword? What
> happened to it after Harry returned it Dumbledore?
>


Tonks:
I just had a horrible thought. I had forgotten that Harry had the 
sword for a brief time. What if...  I'm sure it is not the case... 
but one has to consider all possibilities
  what if when one horcrux 
is destroyed the spell is set up to transport the soul fragment into 
another nearby object?  In other words if the sword is now a 
Horcrux, that would be the only way that it could have happened.  

DD says that the sword is safe.  He forgot about the time that Harry 
had it.  Also in that statement, DD said (of the sword) that it was 
the only "known" relic of Gryffindor's.  Like the rest of us older 
folks, I think his memory was slipping a bit there. The sorting hat 
also belonged to Gryffindor.  So I think that the word "known" was 
put in there for a reason.  I also suspect that the wand in 
Ollivander's window is the wand of Godric Gryffindor and it is not a 
horcrux, but may play an important part in book 7.

Tonks_op