Harry, Voldemort & the Horcrux at Godric's Hollow

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 174947

Brothergib wrote:
> <snip> Thinking this through again LV has always possessed the
object destined to become the horcrux before commiting the murder.
Therefore it seems unlikely that he would split his soul on the
offchance that he might acquire the object at a later date. Therefore,
I do believe that LV intended to make a horcrux with Harry's death,
but that the sword was not necessarily the intended horcrux. I
certainly do not believe that LV believed that he could easily kill DD
and claim the sword;
> 
>" For a second, Harry was on the verge of shouting a pointless
warning: he was sure that Voldemort's hand had twitched towards his
pocket and his wand."
> `Lord Voldemort's Request, P417 HBP, UK edition
> 
> When push comes to shove, LV does not have the bottle to take on DD. 
> 
> Perhaps LV intended to make his wand a horcrux, the wand that had 
defeated his greatest threat – that would have been significant to  LV. 
> 
> While I agree that there is no direct canon evidence to state that LV 
> wanted to create a horcrux with Harry's death, but I do think that 
> DD's comments represent very strong circumstantial evidence. As JKR 
> herself says `The man was brilliant'!
> 
> Brothergib
>
Carol responds:
I guess we're at a stalemate, then, as we're certainly shown no object
that LV took to Godric's Hollow with him. As for that wand movement,
I've always read it as LV casting a curse on the DADA position. DD
notes that from that time forward, he's never been able to keep a DADA
teacher for more than a year.

Carol, who used to think that Tom had not yet made a Horcrux when he
talked to Slughorn but now thinks that he had indeed made the diary,
which could "carry on Salazar Slytherin's noble work" without being
recognized as a Horcrux