Hogwarts, & the Magic World (was:... students ARE there at Hogwartz?)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 191592



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Liz Clark" <liz.treky at ...> wrote:
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> 
> Just remembered something that may affect your opinions of the Gaunts mental 
> states, certainly Marvolo anyway. Marvolo Gaunt was wearing his ring, which 
> we know was the Resurrection Stone. Is it not possible that part or all of 
> his madness was caused by the ring, as was told in the story of The Three 
> Brothers?
> Liz
>

Steve:

Excellent theory, but let's remember that each of the three Gaunts we met was a little looney each in their own way. 

It seems unlikely that the Ring would have affected them all, and remember it didn't become a Horcrux until the night that Tom Riddle Jr framed Gaunt and killed his father. It was his father's death that presumabley created the Horcrux. 

However, it was one of the Three Hallows, though I doubt that Gaunt or anyone knew of its power to recall the dead. And, it was the dead that the original Perverel recalled that drove him to suicide, not the Ring itself. 

Steve/bboyminn