CHAPDISC: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ch. 19: The Silver Doe

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No: HPFGUIDX 182814

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nirupama76" <nirupama76 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > > 5.  Why did it have to be Ron who destroyed the Horcrux?  
Wouldn't 
> > > Harry have been able to destroy it just as effectively?  
> > 
> > aussie:
> > Voldemort was connected with Harry. If Harry's emotions were 
tested 
> > by the Horcrux, voldemort may have become aware of the quest 
Harry 
> > was on earlier and the cup and tiarra would have been impossible 
to 
> > touch.
> > 
> 
> Niru writes:
> 
> Somehow I don't think Voldemort would have sensed the destruction 
of 
> the Horcrux if Harry *had* done it. He (Voldemort) was so far 
steeped 
> in evil that he had lost all connection with the severed pieces of 
his 
> soul. In DH, he didn't even seem to be aware that Harry was 
accessing 
> his mind and viewing things as they were happening. He *could* 
have 
> tried to access Harry's mind as he did in OotP but methinks that 
old 
> Voldy got a huge scare from his experience trying to possess Harry 
and 
> wasn't at all keen to experience it again. ...
> 
> I think Ron had to be one to weild the sword since he retrieved it 
> from the pond under conditions of valour, chivalry, etc. Harry is 
> right in his estimate of the incalculable power of certain acts. 
> 
> - Niru (not intending to be argumentative but getting carried away 
> with Voldemort's connection or lack thereof with his soul pieces).
>
aussie:
It's just that JKR seemed to go to great lengths to not have Harry 
destroy any of the Horcruxes personally (with one exception):

Diary = Harry (but before Voldemort had returned to human form -GOF)
Ring = DD
Locket = Ron
Cup = Hermione
Tiarra = Crabbe
Snake = Neville

Voldemort did know the diary was destroyed and punished Lucius for 
that, but was unaware that any of the other Horcruxes were even in 
danger until the Cup was stolen.

Such a dramatic meeting of souls (harry and Voldy's Horcux) would 
ahve been felt without any conscious effort on Tom's part.

aussie: