Slytherin's Horcrux (was:Hogwarts Houses Unite!)

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No: HPFGUIDX 163813

> >>Jen: Harry figuring out how to destroy each and every horcrux    
> sounds like a stretch to me at the moment, unless Harry the Horcrux 
> has a natural understanding of how to destroy them all.  So your   
> idea appeals to me much more and fits the theme of Harry acting as 
> a uniter and Voldemort as the divider.  The only thing I'm         
> wondering about is...the diary wasn't a Gryffindor horcrux,         
> really.  Oh, but it was a *Muggle* horcrux container--wonder if    
> Harry's blood status had anything to do with being able to destroy 
> it?  But no, that doesn't work because Dumbledore seemed to have an 
> extremely hard time with the Slytherin ring horcrux and he's        
> supposedly pureblood.  Ack, my head is spinning now!  

Betsy Hp:
I'm not really married to any particular methodology -- just 
*something* to get members of each House working together! <g>  But 
it may be that rather than a *set* rule of how a horcrux gets 
destroyed (ie: Luna the Ravenclaw, Harry the Halfblood) each student 
will have an original connection to the Horcrux.

So for example, Magpie's idea about Regulus charming the locket to 
respond only to a (pureblood?) member of the House of Black will 
bring Draco into destroy (or make vulnerable) that horcrux.  But Zach 
will come into play with the Hufflepuff cup for an entirely different 
reason.

I do like the idea of Harry having a special connection with 
Voldemort proper (I suppose that means I like the Horcrux!Harry 
theory?) and that being a big reason he was able to so easily destroy 
the diary.  But the diary was really linked to Tom Riddle, not to any 
Founder or even Hogwarts in the end.  So there was a personal 
connection there that I'm not sure the other Horcruxes (at least, the 
Founder specific ones) will have.

Because Regulus (and yes, I'm running with that particular assumption 
<g>) stole the "Slytherin" Horcrux, I think he's put his own 
fingerprints all over it.  So there's an extra layer of connection 
that Harry isn't as privy to.  (Despite Sirius being Harry's 
godfather, Harry is not a Black.)  Which is why I love Magpie's 
theory so much.

I've also thought a bit about the "Gryffindor" Horcrux, and we're not 
actually sure there is one, right?  I mean, we know there's a 
Slytherin (locket) horcrux and Hufflepuff (cup) horcrux.  But 
Dumbledore just guessed that there'd *either* be a Gryffindor *or* a 
Ravenclaw horcrux and then Nagini.

Since I think the Hogwarts Houses uniting will be essential, and 
since I think it makes sense to tie that union with the horcrux hunt, 
I guess I'm assuming that there will be a Ravenclaw horcrux.  
Otherwise, how will Ravenclaw be involved?  Which means either there 
is no Gryffindor horcrux or the Gryffindor horcrux is Harry.

If Harry's the Gryffindor horcrux I'm doubting JKR will use Neville 
as the Gyrffindor representative.  It'd be a waste of an opportunity 
to show the importance of Ginny in Harry's life I think.  In yet 
another assumption (boy, this is *such* a house of cards!) I think 
Harry will go through a sort of death and resurrection at the end of 
DH, either to destroy the horcrux within him, or to battle and 
destroy Voldemort (or both for that matter).

If a Gryffindor needs to provide a helping hand to Harry at this 
moment (and I'd guess the help would be in the form of an anchor or 
connection to life) it'd make more sense for Ginny (love of Harry's 
life) to play that role than Neville.

> >>Jen:
> <snip>
> Not to mention a major theme in OOTP was Harry dealing with the    
> ambiguous nature of good/evil.
> <snip>
> And now I can't help but think there will be more to the family    
> story, that JKR is *not* going for the Good Weasleys/Bad Blacks    
> dichotomy.

Betsy Hp:
Yeah, I've always been *really* uncomfortable with the Weasleys 
as "perfect family".  (Actually, I think part of my deep dislike of 
Molly has sprung from so many fans trying to shoehorn her into 
the "perfect wife and mother" role.)  Since JKR doesn't seem 
comfortable with making anyone "perfectly good", and since I've seen 
very few examples of "perfectly evil" (Voldemort is the only 
character to spring to mind), I also seriously doubt she means for us 
to see the Black family as evil.

So, um, yeah.  I agree!

Betsy Hp (Congratulates anyone who might make some sort of sense of 
this rather babbling post.  I certainly can't. <bg>)