Chapter 27 Discussion / Why LV is bad / How TMR found the CoS / Cup Soul Bit

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 184180

Carol earlier:
 
> > Thanks for answering my question, but it all sounds badly thought
out to me (especially having H and R carry armfuls of highly dangerous
Basilisk fangs with only two Horcruxes left to destroy, one of them a
snake who would bite them before they stabbed her).
> 
Pippin responded:
> Considering that they've already had one means of destroying
horcruxes snatched away from them, that Voldemort now knows that they
are after his horcruxes and may succeed in creating more, and that
they expect Voldemort's forces will be able to drive them out of
Hogwarts very shortly, collecting the fangs from the chamber seems to
me a good idea.
> 
> That they were carrying them in their arms suggests that they simply
hadn't had time to think of a way to transport them more safely. It's
likely they can't be Summoned, in which case dumping them into the
beaded bag would be a very bad idea. How would you carry them?
> 
>  In the event, they aren't needed (although they might be, in the
future. Some other dark wizard might decide to make a horcrux
someday.) <snip>

Carol responds:

How would I carry them? Very carefully! (Not in the beaded bag, I
agree.) And I'd carry only one, taking great care not to touch it any
more than I would touch the cursed opal necklace. The possibility that
Voldemort might create more Horcruxes never arises; even he probably
knows that he's pushed that particular type of magic to the limit by
dividing his soul in seven pieces, and even with at least one Horcrux
(the diary) destroyed, he wouldn't want to undo the magical power of
the number seven. (He doesn't realize that he's already undone it. Was
the creation of Nagini as Horcrux the point at which he began to go
downhill, I wonder? Yes, he obtains a body, and, yes, the drop of
blood that he was so desperate to obtain is as much a curse in
disguise as Wormtail's silver hand, but maybe his judgment and his
self-control started to come apart at that point?)

Anyway, I'd have created some sort of magical container (something
like Nagini's bubble?) for the one Basilisk fang needed for the tiara,
the Sword of Gryffindor being unavailable. Hermione can conjure a
crystal vial out of the air for Snape's memories; I don't see why she
couldn't conjure some poison-proof container with a handle just as
easily. (I would not have considered killing Nagini with a Basilisk
fang--far too dangerous). And once I obtained a fang, I would not have
dropped it to the floor to kiss my boyfriend (girlfriend if I were
Ron) and left it and the broom on the floor outside the RoR where
anyone could find and use them (or be poisoned by the fang if they
didn't know what it was).

As for the possibility that the Basilisk fangs might be needed someday
for some unknown Dark Wizard who might create a Horcrux in the distant
future, Hermione and Ron aren't thinking in those terms, and the
Basilisk fangs will still be in the CoS waiting to be used when that
distant time comes (if it ever does, considering that Dumbledore
removed all the books on Horcruxes from the Hogwarts library and
they'r now in Hermione's possession. A Dark Wizard graduating from
Durmstrang and creating Horcruxes would be someone else's problem, and
besides, both DD and LV seem to know of only one other Wizard (Herpo
the Foul?) who created a Horcrux, and that was only a single Horcrux.
The likelihood that they might someday need a hastily gathered supply
of Basilisk fange is remote. Better to leave them where they're
inaccessible to anyone who can't say "Open" in Parseltongue. (What
happens to them now that they're dropped on the floor outside the RoR?
They're useless to HRH and a hazard to everyone else.)

> Pippin 
> who thinks that the endings of all JKR's books are hard to follow. I
don't know how many times I had to read the end of PoA before it
started to make sense.

Carol:
Glad we agree on that. 

Carol, who was beginning to think that her own poor, befuddled brain
ws responsible for the confusion