[HPforGrownups] Re: Horcrux hunting

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 153189

On 5/30/06, distaiyi <distaiyi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
Carol:
> > Whatever the case, I agree that destroying the other Horcruxes isn't
> > going to be nearly as easy as stabbing a diary with a poisoned fang.

Distaiyi:
> Sorry, just had to take issue with this statement. Let's take a moment
> to examine just how "easy" this was :
>
> Harry Potter was 12 and at the beginning of his Magical learning.
> He had to find the chamber of secrets which NO ONE (not even DD) in
> the history of the school had ever done (except Lord Voldemort).
> To get that meaningless "poisoned fang" he had to fight and defeat a
> beast that few ever survive meeting, much less fighting.
> All the while he had to deal with whatever feelings a 12 year old who
> is watching his best friend's sister (and closest thing to a real
> relative he has) dying in front of him at the feet of the "ghost" of
> the one person in the world who's only purpose is to destroy Harry.
>
> Maybe it's just me, but "easy" doesn't seem an apt description of this
> particular accomplishment.

Peggy W:
All excellent points, and I would only add that we don't actually know
that it was just the poison Basilisk fang that destroyed the
diary/Horcrux.  The fang was covered with Harry's own blood (IIRC he
removed it from his arm), so for all we know, it may have been Harry's
blood that destroyed the Horcrux.  I have wondered about this for some
time.

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Peggy Wilkins
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