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

[Liz Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 191594

>> 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
>
Liz now:
I wasn't thinking of it being a Horcrux, that was after any of them were 
alive I believe. It was just the fact that calling back the dead made the 
original brother mad, which gives a similar state of mind to Marvolo and 
Morfin. We could speculate that one of them accidentally activated the 
hallow for instance. Very easily done, if you've ever twiddled a ring around 
your finger when thinking!

Further, and as another thoughts, could parseltongue cause madness? Those we 
know of as 'man/insane' were parselmouths. Unless I've forgotten someone.