Those dam Hordevours!

[Judy]

Snow suggested a possible "Hordevours" (great name!):

> Riddle's special-services-to-the-
> school-award. 
> ...Riddle used items that did not belong to him but he took some 
> pride in. Riddle did not deserve to be honored by a school award 
> for the fake capture of Hagrid killing Moaning Myrtle. 

Very clever idea!  However, I'm not sure Riddle made two while at 
school, and he may have felt that the award would be too hard for him 
to get to, if he needed to move it or something. On the other hand, 
he may have applied to be the DADA teacher because he wanted to be 
near the award, which he either wanted to make into a horcrux, or 
already had.

> You need to kill to split the soul. One killing for each split of  
> the soul. Tom killed his father and grandparents; that would be 
> three killings and three possible Horcrux's. In Slughorn's get 
> together in the Pencieve where Tom asks him about Horcrux's, Tom 
> already has the Slytherin ring on his hand which Harry is clear to 
> already done the dirty deed. We know that the ring was a Horcrux 
> notice that he had (that's one killing of the three he murdered)
> the diary (that's two) so what better than the special-award-to-the-
> school to be the third? 

This assumes one can "save up" the soul fragments from a murder and 
use them later, which I doubt.  I suspect that horcrux must be made 
at or immemdiately after the time of the murder.

Snow also suggests that Voldemort would store a Horcrux at Gringotts.

Ah!  If he did that, he would actually be following advice to Evil 
Overlords, rule #5: "The artifact which is the source of my power 
will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire 
guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit 
box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness."  (see 
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html)  Knowing Voldie, 
that would make too much sense, though.

-- Judy