CHAPDISC: HBP 23, Horcruxes

[TK Kenyon]

No: HPFGUIDX 160771

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> No other Horcrux is intended to be interactive. They exist only to
> house a soul bit and keep it earthbound. Soul bits do not in
> themselves contain memories, IMO.

Hi folks,

Sorry I haven't been around lately. Have been working on my own 
book, which doesn't come out until April of next year. (Somewhat 
unintentional shameless self-promo. Running on little sleep. Toddler 
being recalcitrent about sleeping.) 

This is a fascinating, wonderful line of inquiry. I'm following it 
in depth. So, our essential question is, does a piece of a soul (and 
thus a Horcrux) necessarily include memory? What is the relationship 
between the soul and memory? 

I'm reminded of a quote from St. Augustine, from *The City of 
God,* "The memory is, as it were, the belly of the soul." It's a 
rather agnostic comment, when you look at it. 

It seems to me that JKR might be playing off this idea of St. A. If 
this is so, then every horcrux has a memory. 

The diary had the Tom Riddle / Basilisk /Hagrid incident. 

The necklace from the Cave was a fake. 

The ring was the other horcrux that was destroyed. Is that how DD 
got the memory of Tom's childhood? Did he have to go into the ring 
to destroy it, much like Harry entered the diary? We know that there 
was a fight and that's how DD's hand got withered. Something 
happened while destroying it, assuming that the ring and the 
withered hand are connected. Somehow, DD got the memory of Voldy's 
childhood. These must be linked. Most likely, IMHO, the ring 
contained Voldy's childhood. 

"The memory is, as it were, the belly of the soul." The horcruxes, 
then, probably contain memory as well as soul bits. 

JMHO, 

TK Kenyon, TigerPatronus
www.tkkenyon.com
Author of RABID, coming in April, 2007 from Kunati Books