The Hallows/Horcrux ring thing

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 175790

montims:

OK - so I have been thinking again about the ring - why on earth did
Dumbledore put it on?

He knew it was the Hallow - he says on P.576 (UK version) of DH - "I lost my
head, Harry.  I quite forgot that it was now a Horcrux, that the ring was
sure to carry a curse.  I picked it up and put it on..."

I wonder if he did see Ariana and his parents.  But in any case, as Snape
says (p.546), "That ring carried a curse of extraordinary power..." and his
hand became blackened, and he would have died without Snape's help.  He
smashed it with the sword, and the Horcrux was destroyed.

All well and good, but he didn't need to put the ring on at all - only turn
it three times in the hand, as the second brother did.  Harry heard the
fairy story once, and knew what to do.  DD had lived how many years?
Knowing that tale inside out, especially as he had hoped to unite the
Hallows, and being the greatest wizard of his time...

He left the ring to Harry, so he must have known it would still work after
being broken.  So in the time between finding the ring, and dying, I wonder
how often he used the stone to recall his dead...


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