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

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181940

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

> So I reiterate, what was the purpose of DD's statement about LV's 
> reserving Horcrux making for significant murders?


zanooda:

Two possibilities: either DD was mistaken, or else JKR forgot 
about "significant murders" when she came up with her list of murders 
in the interview :-). I admit that I was disappointed with Muggle 
tramps and peasants on her list. It used to fit so well, important 
object - important murder - important hiding place. And now ... . LV, 
using Muggles to create his precious Horcruxes? What's the rush? 
Couldn't he just take the diadem back to England and kill 
someone "important"? Couldn't he find someone a little more suitable 
to kill for the locket/H-x?


> Mike:

> 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. 


zanooda:

I think DD figured out the number of H-xes using the information 
about the objects, not about the murders. Carol wrote about it very 
well, so I won't go in there :-). I just think that DD "guessed", as 
he puts it, which murder was used for which H-x, and all these 
murders *were* important (Myrtle, Riddle Sr. and Hepzibah Smith), so 
he deduced (wrongly, apparently) that *all* the murders must be 
important. He didn't know  who was murdered for the locket, and he 
knew nothing at all about the diadem.

As for why LV was so much in a hurry to make Nagini a Horcrux (I 
think you asked about it, but I can't find where :-)) - I also think 
it was strange to do such a thing when he was barely alive himself, 
and it was stupid to make the snake a H-x at all :-). But, you know 
what, LV was obsessed with number 7, right? Maybe he thought that 
completing the process (creating the last H-x) will give him some 
super-protection. That's all I can offer as an explanation for now :-
).