[HPforGrownups] Harry, Horcruxes and Parseltongue

[Liz Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 191265

> Teebee:
So that means when Voldy went to Slughorn to ask about horcruxes he 
> already knew how to make them? and was only curious about making 
7 of them? according to the interview he would have already had 2 
> horcruxes and wearing one of them.

> And also if Nagini became a horcrux after killing Bertha that 
would mean it happened in the 7th book but Dumbledore already 
> suspected the snake to be a horcrux after Frank was killed in 
the Riddle house.


Liz responds:
I haven't yet read HBP (I'm getting there slowly!) but did it 
mention how old Riddle was? But as a thought, he may have been 
wearing the ring, but it may have just been that, a ring, at that 
time. The Diary, as we know, was a horcrux created from Myrtle, 
when Riddle was a prefect, which means he was in 5th, 6th or 
possibly 7th year. I say possibly as I would think it would 
be mentioned if he was Head Boy at the time, but it only said 
prefect.

Also, Bertha was killed in or just before the 4th book. Bertha 
Jorkins was murdered in Albania before the Quidditch World Cup. 
This happened before Frank was killed.