[the_old_crowd] Re: Of Hxs and parasites

[Kat Macfarlane]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <kking0731 at ...> wrote:

> Is the Diary the only Horcrux with a memory or is it the 
> only one with a memory of Tom? 

Lyn here:
Now that's a most interesting matter to consider. So did TR just come up with something 
that had never been done before? I think not or DD would have shown greater surprise 
when the nature of the diary was first revealed. No, someone must have done it before, 
and DD knew of that, so what are, or have been the prior examples? Who did them, and do 
any other examples remain. Now wouldn't it be so very interesting if SS had made 
something similar, or better yet, that each of the founders had done something similar. And 
what information might they contain for the present generation of wizards? Harry is now 
familiar with the workings of a diary, so will he be prepared to use other memory objects 
for his future purposes. 
> 
> It's one of those unknowns that we are dealing with, which is the 
> Horcrux and its affects. Does a Horcrux creation hold a copy of the 
> owner's self when it was created or more so the death it was created 
> with? 

Lyn again:
Yes too many unknowns are feasible for my tastes. I kind of doubt your current 
speculation just because of the great fragmentation of experience. If the diary held the TR 
before age 16, then would another Hex contain him just as 22, and another at 27, etc. Kind 
of makes one wonder what would happen if they were all able to materialize themselves 
through the contributed life force of another (like Ginny was meant to be), then would they 
recognize themselves? Would they all hang around as a "band of brothers?" Nah, this is 
just not elegant enough for me. 

Gatta now:

Given what we've seen of TR's social sensibilities, they'd probably fight like cats and dogs.
> 
> Does a Horcrux hold the same powers that the owner itself does and/or 
> was the Diary the only Horcrux so far that exhibited a memory? 

> 
> We have seen a possible Horcrux (the locket) act on memories.is there 
> a connection?

And again:
I just love these speculations. Did the locket really act on memories, or just the fluid in 
which it was held? It seems the latter, but what if the fluid was indeed changed by its long 
relationship to the locket. Again, a bit to complicated for my tastes, but very interesting 
none the less.

Gatta now:

If the locket did indeed leak memories into the potion, might not Dumbledore be reliving the memory of TR killing his father and grandparents, and mightn't his plea not to hurt "them", kill him instead be that of TR Sr.?


Purrs!

--Gatta



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