HBP Spoilers contained within

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Amy Z wrote:
> > I
> > S
> > 
> > T
> > H
> > I
> > S
> > 
> > E
> > N
> > O
> > U
> > G
> > H 
> > 
> > S
> > P
> > O
> > I
> > L
> > E
> > R
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> > S
> > P
> > A
> > C
> > E
> > ?
> > 
> 
> Well, I'm a little disappointed in the Horcrux thing for this very 
> reason.  I don't see how we could really have figured it out from 
> what we had in the previous books.  Indeed I don't know of anyone 
> who did.

Well, it makes really good sense out of the diary.  How it was able 
to do all the things that it did, and such--only a part of a soul 
could be that inventive.  Compare it to the Map, which has skill in 
it but not the stuff of life itself.

-Nora agrees with Amy Z about the difficulty of explaining this Big 
Event away