[HPforGrownups] Durmstrang and Horcruxes

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 154448


Monday, June 26, 2006, 11:26:54 PM, honeykissed246 wrote:

h> I was reading a few post as they relate to the horcruxes and it dawned 
h> on me (late...but dawned) that teaching about horcruxes was banned at 
h> Hogwarts but was it banned at Durmstrang? I don't remember reading 
h> anywhere that it was and isn't it a school that openly teaches the 
h> dark arts...

You make a good point.  I'm wondering if LV's missing 10 years might
at least been partly spent at Durmstrang.  I don't think he could have
learned about the Horcrux spell itself there, since he seems to have
made at least one (the ring) before he vanished from Borgin and
Burkes; but he may have picked up lots of useful stuff, like the uses
of snake venom and unicorn blood, and maybe confirmation that his
six-Horcrux scheme was practicable.

Maybe Dumbledore is wrong about Nagini, and LV, despairing of finding
a fourth Hogwarts artifact, settled for a Durmstrang artifact
instead...?

-- 
Dave (Who can't get over Dumbledore telling Harry that animal
       Horcruxes are "not advisable", as if any Horcrux *was*!!)