Dumbledore's Horcrux

[jojobinks1983]

No: HPFGUIDX 170903

> Geoff:
> In addition to Bart's argument against this, Dumbledore's
> own comments should be considered:
>
> '"The snake?" said Harry, startled. "You can use animals as
> Horcruxes?"
> "Well, it is inadvisable to do so," said Dumbledore, "because
> to confide a part of your soul to something that can think
> and move for itself is obviously a very risky business."'
> (HBP "Horcruxes" p.473 UK edition)
>
> I don't think, in a situation like that, Dumbledore is into
> risky...

Jo:
Geoff, how would he know it was risky? Perhaps from experience...

Bart said:
> ...creating a horcrux is NOT just a matter of committing a
> murder.  It's a willingness to lose a piece of one's own soul.
> In general, the only kind of person who could do that is someone
> who is so out of touch with their own soul that they don't even
> miss its absence; in other words, a sociopath or psychopath.
> Dumbledore is neither.
>
> Would you become immortal if the price was that you would
> contract Alzheimers Disease? When you create a horcrux, you may
> be harder to kill, but you are no longer you, unless you were
> essentially soulless to begin with.

Jo:
Bart, think you're taking this a wee bit too far into the real
world.

Perhaps Dumbledore, omniscient as he is, invisible hand guiding
Harry and his chums, thought he might be needed for the last
battle.

I think that splitting his own soul out of necessity would be a
huge sacrifice, and an unwelcome one, but I think that it is in
Dumbledore's character to make that sort of sacrifice if it was
necessary in the bigger picture. There are so many examples of
his willingness to make sacrifices like this:

1. Employing Trelawney even though students would suffer as she
is a bad teacher.
2. Making Snape kill him (controversial, please don't shoot me
down!)
3. Making Harry live with the Dursleys
4. Insisting Sirius his at Grimmauld Place
5. Lupin having to spy on the werewolves

So many other examples...Dumbledore is responsible for the great
unhappiness of many of our favourite characters, he must have
made a sacrifice along the way. Maybe the hypothetical Horcrux
harnesses the compassionate bit of his soul...(this is a joke by
the way but I still think that Dumbledore may have a Horcrux).

Jo x