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

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181943

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> > zanooda:

> > 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. 
 
> Carol:

> It was almost certainly Hepzibah's. He was still working at 
> Borgin and Burke's when he found out about the cup and the 
> locket, and he killed her, framed Hokey, and stole the future  
> Horcruxes at that point.(DD says in HBP that he doesn't think 
> that Tom committed any murders between Hepzibah and the Riddles, 
> and Tom's appearance suggests that he hadn't yet made the 
> Ravenclaw Horcrux.) He certainly hadn't yet killed the Muggle 
> whose murder he used for the locket Horcrux because
> it was obtained at the same time as the cup, for which he used
> Hepzibah's murder.


zanooda:

Right, right, of course he couldn't have killed the muggle before 
Hepzibah, I really shouldn't post at one in the morning :-). But I'm 
still not very sure in which order the diadem and the cup murders 
were committed. I mean, Harry believed that LV went to Albania to 
retrieve the diadem right after he finished school, and I kind of 
tend to agree with him on this one. 

Imagine being the only one in the world to know where a legendary 
object is hidden, and not to get it or at least not to check if it is 
still there! It's been a thousand years, anything could happen! I 
personally would go and get it at the first opportunity :-).

I know that you base your assumption on the fact that LV's appearance 
didn't change enough for three Horcruxes when he worked at B&B, but 
we don't really know how all this appearance change thing works. 
Maybe it doesn't happen gradually, maybe for some time the body 
manages to stay barely changed, but at some point (after three H-
xes :-)?) the soul becomes so unstable that suddenly all goes 
downhill really quickly :-).

 
> Carol:

> I'm sure you're correct. 


zanooda:

Oh, I'm not so sure, it's still one big "maybe". We don't know what 
JKR will write about it in the encyclopedia - maybe it's something 
totally different. But it feels nice to speculate again :-).