DD's guesses.

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 187042

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, LauraNPSP64 at ... wrote:

> I believe Dumbledore began to believe Harry was a horcrux 
> at the end of Chamber of Secrets. He tells Harry in 
> Half-Blood Prince that it was  Harry that put him on 
> to the fact that Lord Voldemort had made horcruxes.


zanooda:

I see what you mean, but I think the diary only alerted DD to the fact that LV made *multiple* Horcruxes. I had an impression that at that time (end of CoS) DD already knew, or strongly suspected that LV created at least one Horcrux, he just didn't know that there were more than one. He must have gotten suspicious when he saw how much LV changed physically when he came to ask for a teaching position.


> LauraNPSP64 wrote:

> He may have suspected beforehand, but I don't think he 
> knew for sure until he was handed the destroyed diary. 


zanooda:

But if he suspected it earlier than CoS, couldn't he also suspect that Harry was a Horcrux :-)? What DD says about Harry's wound in SS/PS confuses me. You know, that he wouldn't want to cure the cut even if he could, that scars can be useful etc. :-). That's why I wondered if he knew even then, although I don't see how.