Harry, Voldemort & the Horcrux at Godric's Hollow

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 174425

Brothergib wrote:
>
> I think I'm right in stating that DD felt that LV wanted to use
Harry's death to make his final Horcrux. The suggestion from JKR's
latest interview is that the Horcrux must be created as soon as the
person is killed that facilitates the soul splitting. Therefore, what
object did he intend to convert into a Horcrux that night at Godric's
hollow - and is it still there? The only thing I can think of is his wand.

Carol responds:

As far as I can see, especially after JKR's chat transcript (which
states that he used the murder of an Albanian peasant for the
Ravenclaw diadem and Bertha Jorkins for Nagini), Dumbledore is
mistaken on this particular point. Voldemort does not reserve
Horcrux-making for important murders, or the other way around. The
most recent murder will do. It's the Horcrux itself that counts. Maybe
he even murdered Myrtle to make the diary Horcrux.

His motive in going to Godric's Hollow, however, was not to make a
Horcrux. Both Dumbledore and Harry suspect that he wanted to use the
Sword of Gryffindor, but he had not obtained it as of Godric's Hollow.
(My theory is that his next murder, after killing Harry, would have
been Dumbledore, killed to make the Sword his last Horcrux.)

But his sole objective in going to Godric's Hollow, as we see in
"Bathilda's Secret," is to kill Harry Potter and thwart the Prophecy.

"He pointed the wand very carefully into the boy's face. He wanted to
see it happen, the destruction of this one, inexplicable danger" (DH
Am. ed. 345).

The last Horcrux can wait until he's destroyed his future enemy.
Unfortunately for him, he breaks, becoming "nothing but pain and
terror" (345). wanting nothing but to hide himself far from the
screaming child, unaware that he's turned him into an accidental
Horcrux because his soul is so unstable.

Much later, restored to a fetal body by Wormtail and knowing that
he'll never obtain the Sword of Gryffindor while Dumbledore lives, he
uses the murder of Bertha Jorkins to turn his dear Nagini into what he
thinks is his seventh Horcrux.

BTW, someone asked earlier why Harry is referred to as the only person
ever to survive the Killing Curse when Voldemort also survived an
(admittedly deflected) AK. I think it's because Voldemort's *body*
didn't survive. It's a soulless corpse to which he can't return. Since
the narrative says that he "broke," I assume that his body exploded
with such force that it partially blew up the house. So Voldemort as
Voldemort didn't survive the curse. Only his fragmented soul, anchored
to earth by his Horcruxes and unable to enter the afterlife, survived.

Carol, who thinks that if Voldie had brought an object to be made into
a Horcrux, the soul bit would have entered it rather than Harry's as
yet unsealed scar