The Ravenclaw Hx identified?

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> 
> That's not how I see it, rather the reverse.  As long as Harry was 
> focussed on Riddle, he got nowhere - and there's plenty of evidence 
> that Riddle was playing for time in that scene.
> 
> Once he stabs the *diary*, Riddle vanishes and Ginny revives.
> 
> It is true that, had Riddle not come out of the diary, the Basilisk 
> would not have been summoned and harry would not have had a handy 
fang to do the stabbing with.  But I think the inference is that a 
powerful magical entity requires another powerful magical weapon to 
destroy it, not that the fang was effective because Riddle had had a 
hand in its availability.  I take it that, with an appropriate 
weapon, Harry could have destroyed the diary at any time, had he 
known what it really was.
> 
> David

Carolyn:
If that's true, it appears you need to destroy evil with evil. 
Otherwise, JKR could have had him just stick Gryffindor's sword 
through it.

Interesting. Wonder what DD used to destroy the ring.