HBP: Dumbledore's hand

[eloise_herisson]

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David:
> I don't have my copy of HBP to verify this.

Debbie:  
> > I've also been mulling over the question of how to destroy a 
Horcrux,
> > since Dumbledore pointedly doesn't tell us how he destroyed the 
ring
> > and how he was hurt in the process. 

David: 
> My recollection is that Dumbledore turns up wearing the ring and 
with 
> an injured hand; later, the ring is gone.
> 
> So he got the injury *getting* the ring, not destroying it.

Eloise:

I looked this up this morning after we discussed it last night (and I 
inadvertently misled you).

Yes, he's wearing the ring, but it's already cracked. In its first 
Pensieve appearance, there's no mention of such a crack, but a 
mysterious allusion to the Peverell coat of arms:

"Know how much I've been offered for this, with the Peverell coat of 
arms engraved on the stone?"

I cannot find a Peverell coat of arms that looks anything like 
remotely Slytherinesque, so what that's about, I've no idea.

I think he must have made at least an abortive attempt to destroy it 
before returning, injured, to Hogwarts for Snape's attentions *which 
apparently probably saved his life* (if he were a traitor, why didn't 
he just let him die? - sorry, had to put that in).

~Eloise