Tom Riddle and the RoR (Was: Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the Deathstick)

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181701

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
 
>  HBP, "Horcruxes", Dumbledore speaking:
>  "As far as I know - as far, I am sure, as Voldemort 
>  knew - no wizard had ever done more than tear his soul 
>  in two."

This only means that both DD and LV knew no one attempted to create 
multiple Horcruxes before. It doesn't mean that LV already knew *how* 
to create a Horcrux when he talked to Slughorn. Harry says in 
DH: "Dumbledore was sure Riddle already knew how to make a Horcrux by 
the time he asked Slughorn about them" (p.103), but I don't remember  
anything being said about it in HBP. 

I'm pretty sure that the statement itself is correct, I just can't find 
where DD said it in the book :-). The closest thing would be: "What he 
particularly wanted from Horace was an opinion on what would hapen to 
the wizard who created more than one Horcrux", but it's not the same 
thing as "he already knew how to make a Horcrux, but wanted Horace's 
opinion on what would happen ..." etc. Maybe it's just Harry's 
interpretation, that's all. Or I didn't read HBP carefully :-).


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