CHAPDISC: HBP 23, Horcruxes

[rtbthw_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 160289

Goddlefrood:
> > 13. As far as I recall the Sorting Hat was whipped from the head of 
> > Godric Gryffindor (with the implication that it was his), so why 
> > would Dumbledore not at least make a mention of this?
> 
> Carol:
> I don't think that Tom would consider making the dirty old hat that he
> sneers at in CoS into a Horcrux, whatever its powers, and Dumbledore
> knows that Tom prefers objects that in themselves are valuable (and
> durable), Objects that have "a certain grandeur"--preferably made of
> gold, apparently. The Sorting Hat doesn't qualify. Also, since the
> Sorting Hat can think for itself, its thinking would probably be
> altered by the addition of a Horcrux, which Dumbledore would easily
> detect and destroy. It doesn't seem to occur to DD that Riddle would
> use the Sorting Hat any more than he'd use an old mouth organ if he
> still had one. And it isn't really a relic of Gryffindor since, as
> others have pointed out, it has "brains" from all  four Founders in
> it. (For some reason, I'm getting menatal images of the Scarecrow's
> brain from the book version of Wizard of Oz.)
> > 

Pat, delurking to add a small comment:

There's also the point that the Sorting Hat has been used by every
student that has ever come to Hogwarts, since it *became* the Sorting
Hat, and therefore has lost any special-ness that it might once have
had.  The other objects are special because they are one-of-a-kind and
rare: the Sorting Hat, it seems to me, would be considered by
Voldemort to be too common for something as precious as one seventh of
 his soul.

Pat, humbly intruding on a great chapter discussion, but wanting to
throw this in.