Changes to JKR official site - or bad memory?

Steve bboyminn at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 15 15:39:08 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 183699

---  "Grace Donaldson" <goodgracious at ...> wrote:
>
> I thought for sure that a year ago I got two ideas from JKR's 
> official website:
> 
> 1) It was highly unadvisable to make any living creature a 
> horcrux, and impossible to make a *person* a horcrux, and
> 

bboyminn:

Almost, this is not from the website but from the books. 

---Half-Blood Prince Am.Ed. HB ---

"I don't think so," said Dumbledore. "I think I know what
the sixth Horcrux is. I wonder what you will say when I 
confess that I have been curious for a while about the 
behavior of the snake, Nagini?'

"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...."

- - - end quote - - - 

But, I don't recall anywhere where it specifically says that
it is /impossible/ to make another human into a Horcrux. It
is just implied that it is inadvisable to make living things
into Horcruxes.

If this is in reference to Harry being a Horcrux, remember
Harry wasn't a true Horcrux, being an accidental-Horcrux,
Harry was only Horcrux-like. In the moment that Voldemort
first tried to kill Harry, a fragment of Voldemort's soul
latch on to the only living thing it could find. But that
is very different than the spells and procedures required
to intentionally encapsulate a portion of your soul into
an inanimate object.

So, Harry is similar to a Horcrux, but not truly a Horcrux.


> 2) In the Fidelius Charm, if the Secret Keeper dies ..., the
> secret dies with him/her -- and I thought she explicated this 
> further by saying that no one new could be brought into the 
> secret. 
>
> ...
> 
> Thanks,
> yraiym
>

bboyminn:

The JKR website response can be read here -

http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_poll.cfm

This has been discussed before, but I think people who have a
problem with it are taking it too literally. JKR is bound by
personal honor to tell the truth, but she is not bound at any
given minute to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

She is perfectly able to tell partial truths or even misleading
truths. Here statement on the Secret Keeper refers to a specific
moment in time - "...remain as it was at the moment of their 
death". That doesn't mean that more details can't come to light
AFTER the moment of death. 

JKR told the truth as far as she took it; she just left out a
few later details that would have spoil the plot if they had
been revealed at that time. 

So, while some have a problem with this, I don't. I think JKR
is being truthful as far as she took it, but just because she
stopped at a convenient point, doesn't mean there wasn't more
to say.

Steve/bboyminn





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