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

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 181904

> 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. <snip>
>
> 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.

Mike:
OK, I'll buy this. Nice plot hole filler, Mila. :) Of course, 
combine this with the people LV used to make the Horcruxes, 
and it not only kills DD's "significant" murder theory, it makes 
designating whose murders LV used to make them pointless. He just
needs to have murdered *someone* - and not feel any remorse so 
there is no soul healing - to create a Horcrux. And per DD, he's
killed enough to make an army of Inferi.

So I reiterate, what was the purpose of DD's statement about LV's 
reserving Horcrux making for significant murders? But even worse,
JKR used DD's statement to show he had figured out how many 
Horcruxes Voldemort had made, that he was one short when he went 
to kill Harry at GH, and that therefore he decided to make Nagini 
his 6th Horcrux. (Him not knowing about the Harry!Crux.) 

Now that it appears there was nothing to this "significant" murder 
theory, why should I believe that Dumbledore knew which murders LV 
used to create Horcruxes? And without that knowledge, how am I 
suppose to believe that Dumbledore knew how many Horcruxes were made 
pre-GH and that that left him one more to make with Nagini?

You (generic) can say that DD used more than Horcrux count to figure 
out Nagini!crux, and you'd be right. But IF he hadn't known that LV 
had one more to make, he wouldn't have been looking for the clues 
that led him to conclude Nagini was one.

OK Mila, fill that plot hole! <wink>

Mike, sorry to be finding more plot holes and may have to re-think 
whether this murder-horcrux information should be considered canon.