Horcrux n' Hufflepuff (was Re: Those dam[n] Hordevours!)

[Judy]

I said that I didn't think Tom Riddle would make his the award for 
special services into a horcrux. 


And Talisman responded:
> I don't know if you've seen my post 2435.  It explains how I
> believe what now resides at Hogwarts in the guise of the TR Trophy 
> is the Hufflepuff Cup.  Tom obtained the Hufflepuff Cup after
> leaving school 
> and he could have turned it into a Hx using any of the murders he 
> indulged in, thereafter.

I hadn't read it before (there are still 200 post-HBP posts here I
need to read), but I have now.  I think the idea of transfiguring a
horcrux is a good one. Let me make sure I understand your theory -- 
Voldemort wants to make Hufflepuff's cup into a horcrux.  He decided 
to hide the Cup by transfiguring it into something else.  He doesn't 
like the idea of making the Cup into something unimportant. Instead, 
he makes it look like his trophy, and leaves it in place of the 
trophy.  By doing this, he has hid the Cup-horcrux, thumbed his nose 
at the Wizarding World, put the Cup-horcrux in a protected place, and 
he strengthened his connection to Hogwarts. 

Good theory! Yes, I think that is possible.   And it fits with the 
idea that if a horcrux is at Hogwarts, it was made after Tom Riddle 
left school.  He still hadn't made the 6th horcrux at the time of the 
Potters' deaths, so he obviously took his time, so I don't think he 
made more than one while at school.

-- Judy