Counting and trashing Horcruces

[fhmaneely]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
<bit of snipping>
> 
> The other thing that occurs to me about all this is that by the 
time 
> they have finished, Voldemort, Dumbledore and Harry will have done 
a 
> pretty fine job between them of trashing all the wizarding world's 
> most ancient and magical objets d'art.  The ring is gone, the 
locket 
> is e'en now prik't, the cup cannot be far behind.
> 
> This raises unavoidable Tolkienesque associations for me.  Do these 
> trinkets, like the Elven Rings of Middle Earth, play some role in 
> maintaining the WW?  People have already speculated on possible 
> Nazgul-inducing properties of Slytherin's ring had Dumbledore kept 
> it intact.  Like the, count 'em, 7, Palantiri, do the properties of 
> these devices become corrupted and formed to the will of the Dark 
> Lord?
> 
> In other words, will the WW take lasting damage from the 
destruction 
> of its ancient treasures?
> David

I was under the impression that the object wasn't destroyed just the 
bit of soul it contained.  Harry saw DD wearing the ring and also on 
a table in his office.  IIrc, the dairy was not destroyed either....

Regards,
Fran