Harry, Horcruxes and Parseltongue

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191266



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, ~*~ teebeenee ~*~ <teebee86627 at ...> wrote:

Geoff: 
> Following June's question, I did a little digging and discovered the following 
> information given by JKR at a Bloomsbury Live Chat in 2007:
> 
> "Whose murders did Voldemort use to create each of the Horcruxes?
> 
> JKR: The diary - Moaning Myrtle. The cup - Hepzibah Smith, the previous 
> owner. The locket - a Muggle tramp. Nagini - Bertha Jorkins (Voldemort 
> could use a wand once he regained a rudimentary body, as long as the 
> victim was subdued). The diadem - an Albanian peasant. The ring - 
> Tom Riddle Senior.
> 
> Can Harry speak Parseltongue when he is no longer a horcrux?
> JKR: No, he loses the ability, and is very glad to do so."
> 
> Hope that sheds a little more light into some of the darker corners.

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. 

Geoff:
Possibly not. Myrtle was killed when Tom Riddle was about sixteen and 
a senior student. The discussion with Slughorn must have occurred 
somewhere about the same time; Harry noted that the group Slughorn 
was teaching at the time were in their mid-teens so it is feasible that 
the death of Myrtle was his first foray into the world of making Horcruxes.

Teebee: 
> 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. 

Geoff:
Bertha Jorkins was killed round about the beginning of Harry's Fourth Year. 
Voldemort boasts about killing her when he tells his followers about 
his return to a body in the graveyard scene at Little Hangleton in "The Death 
Eaters", chapter 33 of GOF.