Hogwarts Attacked! ( was: Cabinet First)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 157975

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> > Pippin continues:
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> > Slughorn had told him that Dumbledore doesn't want 
> > anyone to know about horcruxes. I don't think Voldemort
> > would believe that Dumbledore *hadn't* constructed a 
> > horcrux. ...
> > 
> > ...
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> > Pippin
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> bboyminn:
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> I don't honestly think any one in the books would ever
> conceive that Dumbledore would create his own Horcrux.
> He is far to noble, and Horcruxes are far to Dark and
> immoral for Dumbledore to even consider. 

Pippin:
I agree with you. But Voldemort doesn't think that way, IMO.
Canon devotes an awful lot of space to convincing us
that Voldemort just doesn't get nobility. He doesn't understand
that anybody could have power and choose not to use it, or
use it to the detriment of oneself. Volumes of Dumbledore's 
strategy are based on this: the way he hid the Stone in the 
mirror, his certainty that Voldemort will discount the magic  that
protects Harry at the Dursleys,  that Voldemort will never doubt
that he killed Draco and Narcissa too. I doubt that canon is going to
show us that Dumbledore's understanding of Voldemort was
fundamentally incorrect. Harry's very survival is the result of
Voldemort's inability to anticipate that Lily would sacrifice her
life for her son.

Voldemort would be absolutely convinced that even though
Dumbledore wants everyone to think he's against horcruxes
because they're dark and immoral, the real reason he's
suppressing knowledge of them is that he wants to keep the
secret of their power to himself. Of course we know Dumbledore
is not like that, but Voldemort, IMO, is incapable of understanding
moral repugnance or any action motivated by it. 

Pippin