Question #4--Why so long for the last Horcrux? (small addition)

[kennyg1864]

No: HPFGUIDX 183469

Small addition below that may or may not help...


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kennyg1864" <kennyg1864 at ...>
wrote:
> Thus by 1946 or so, LV's soul is in 6 pieces (5 H's + LV
> himself). But IIRC he wanted it to be in the mystical 7
> pieces. So he created an H in Nagini (in 1994).

> Why did he wait almost 5o years for the mystical 7th piece?
> Obviously he didn't have much opportunity to do so from 1981
> to 1994. But if the 7th piece was so important, why did he
> waste 35 years (1946-1981) *not* creating it? And especially
> in the period between 1946 and 1970, when he "came out" as
> LV (no longer Riddle), he would want to have "ultimate
> protection", since the formation of a group like the OotP
> was inevitable.


I just discovered that *Harry's* death was to be the 7th H:

DD: "He seems to have reserved the process of making Horcruxes
for particularly significant deaths. You would certainly have
been that. He believed that in killing you, he was destroying
the danger the prophesy had outlined. He believed he was making
himself invincible. I am sure that he was intending to make his
final Horcrux with your death." (HBP, ch 23)

However, this doesn't change that LV waited almost 35 years,
since he didn't know of the Prophecy until 1980.

kennyg1864, who wonders if maybe LV got hooked on the WW version
of the Wii during that time