that question about the thingies again
Phyllis
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Mon Jul 18 14:26:17 UTC 2005
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Ginger:
<<I think there should be 3 left. One of the 4 that was left is now
in LV's new body. We know it isn't the locket, because that was
emptied by someone other than LV. We know it ins't Nagini because
that one was made after his re-bodiment. So that leaves the cup and
Rowena's object, one of which should now be empty, having provided
the new soul for his current body.>>
OK, I'm going to try this again, because after sleeping on it, I
found a flaw with my original hypothesis. Which is - according to
what Dumbledore tells Harry in Ch. 23, it seems as if, once
Voldemort made the sixth Horcrux (Nagini), he wasn't able to make
any more. I'm not sure why, exactly - perhaps Voldemort was afraid
if he pushed it any further, the piece of soul still left in his
body would become so small he might wind up dying as a result.
So, following this "logic," the current status of the Horcruxes are:
1. Riddle's Diary (destroyed) - btw, this was likely the "big clue"
in CoS that JKR was fearful would reveal more than she intended at
the time
2. Marvolo's Ring (destroyed)
3. Slytherin's Locket (I'm not entirely convinced this is destroyed;
I don't know for sure whether RAB is Regulus Black; I think it has
to be someone who is still alive that Harry can check with and
confirm whether or not that Horcrux has actually been disabled or we
have to be provided with some proof that Regulus disabled it -
perhaps he died in the effort?)
4. Hufflepuff's Cup (yet to be found)
5. Nagini (still alive)
6. Something belonging to either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw
7. Ginger - the answer to your question (that I didn't answer
correctly yesterday) - the piece that still lives inside Voldemort's
body (see Dumbledore's comments in US version, p. 503, Chapter
23: "But firstly, no, Harry, not seven Horcruxes: six. The
seventh part of his soul, however maimed, resides inside his
regenerated body. That was the part of him that lived a spectral
existence for so many years during his exile; without that, he has
no self at all. That seventh piece of soul will be the last that
anybody wishing to kill Voldemort must attack - the piece that lives
in his body."). So this means that Voldemort didn't lose the piece
of his soul that was in his body when the AK backfired, and
therefore didn't have to replace it with one of the other Horcruxes.
After thinking about it some more, I don't think the piece of soul
that's in a Horcrux actually moves from the Horcrux back into
Voldemort. I think the existence of a Horcrux outside the body
enables the piece of soul still within the body to exist, regardless
of the harm inflicted upon the body. Once no more Horcruxes exist
outside the body, however, the soul inside the body is on its own
and the person becomes mortal again.
~Phyllis
who is still trying to sort this out, too :)
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