Of Hxs and parasites

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" <dfrankiswork at ...> wrote:
> 
> My memory of HP is getting ever more unreliable, but doesn't HBP imply 
> Tom bumped off his dad and grandparents at the *beginning* of the 
> fifth year?  And the simulacrum in COS, presumably frozen at the age 
> of his last memory input to the diary, is a prefect.
> 

Dunno.
Can't recall either, only managed to plough through it one and a bit times.
But if so it's yet another reason for my not liking HBP much.
Ah! Let me recount the ways!
 
> Or did he use another murder to turn the diary into a Horcrux?
>

Is it 100% definite certain and indupitably for sure that it was a Hx? 
Cos if it was, why was it so different from the other known/putative Hxs?
Mind you, if it wasn't it makes life easier for us Sally speculators.

> Re chickens and eggs, I always feel that debate, however tasty, is 
> framed in a way that discriminates against roosters.
> 

I avoid roosters. Difficult to scramble. The feathers get stuck between 
my teeth. Coq au vin is alright, I suppose - if you're prepared to sacrifice
booze. But sacrilegious IMO. Alcohol is a major food group after all - and 
boiling it off so that it condenses on the walls? Hope your paintwork 
tastes better than mine.

Kneasy