Seven Horcruxes (Re: CHAPDISC: DH, EPILOGUE)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 185394

Carol:
<snipping down to small point>
> BTW again, and I'm really straying from the post I'm responding to 
> here, does anyone think that Voldemort is right (in terms of JKR's
> world) about seven's being a lucky number and that he would have
> had a better chance against Harry if he hadn't made that extra 
> Horcrux? Or was the "bad luck" the creation of that accidental
> Horcrux regardless of its place in the sequence and the total 
> number of Horcruxes in the sense that he accidentally created his 
> own worst enemy?

Jen: You make an interesting observation, Carol.  I think Tom was 
supposed to be correct when declaring "seven [is] the most powerfully 
magical number..." (HBP) JKR tends to incorporate easily reconizable 
features into her stories like wands, brooms, cauldrons, tarot cards, 
star-gazing centaurs, etc.  Sometimes there are really good twists, 
like the Lightning Struck Tower card proving literally true rather 
than acting symbolically or making a mockery of Trelawney.  Regarding 
the number 7, it does have recognizable significance - seven days of 
the week, seven planets, biblical reference to creation - and in a 
twist, Voldemort curses himself by unknowingly creating an extra 
Horcrux.  That fits with LV's pattern of bringing himself down, 'best 
laid plans' and all that.