Horcrux Cheat by JKR? (Was Tom Riddle and the RoR)

zanooda2 zanooda2 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 5 06:39:22 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 181889

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:

> I agree with you, Carol, Voldemort must have been using relatively 
> fresh murders to make Horcruxes.
> <SNIP> 
> A second problem: By this Horcrux creation timeline (with which I 
> agree if those are indeed the "Horcrux murders"), Tom would have 
> made his second Horcrux *BEFORE* his conversation with Slughorn.


zanooda:

Maybe a murder needs to be fresh not in the sense of "recent", but in
the sense of "latest", each consecutive murder erasing the previous
one for the purpose of Horcrux-making. For example, LV could use
Myrtle's death to make a H-x even twenty years later, if he didn't
kill anyone else between her murder and the diary H-x creation (yeah,
right :-)), but didn't repent either. To use Myrtle's murder to make a
H-x LV only needed to do it at any time between her murder and his
father's murder.

The same with the ring - he could make it a H-x at any time between
his father's murder and the next murder - I don't know if it was
Hepzibah Smith or that Albanian peasant, or the tramp. This way the
ring doesn't need to be a H-x when LV talks to Slughorn, because he
(LV) didn't kill anyone yet after his father (although he needed to
kill him *after* the grandparents). 

LV didn't have to make the ring a H-x right after or very soon after
the murder. But, if he wanted the ring H-x to be made out of his
father's death, and not out of any other, he needed to turn it into
H-x *before* he killed someone else. I'm not sure that it's the right
idea, because it's late and my head doesn't work well :-).


> Mike: 

> And I bow to your wisdom in picking Nagini as a Horcrux, I 
> thought she was a red herring. 


zanooda:

Yeah, me too :-). Never believed she was a H-x. We were right about
Harry!Horcrux though :-).





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