Whorekrukses Revisted

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

Ok, so I don't make it here very often.  I am woefully behind the 
times and you will probably laugh at my antiquated 
theories.  "Joywitch," you will say with an exasperated tone in your 
voice, "that has been discussed to death.  Please see messages 384, 
1483, 1484, 1502 and 1894 -- for starters! -- for an already-
exhaustive and detailed discussion of this."  Then, you will 
probably mutter under you breath something about "I don't understand 
why they don't just throw her out of here.  Probably only because 
she's been around FOREVER that they don't - she must have dirt on 
all of us."  (Bwahahaha)
  
But I have been thinking about something.  I made a brief trip to 
HP4GU (my old neighborhood which, sadly, I visit even more 
infrequently than I visit here, and when I do, I hardly recognize 
it, what with all the development -- Starbucks and condiminiums and 
sidewalks so crowded you can hardly walk down them and all.  But I 
digress.)  I noticed an interesting theory, twinkling at me from the 
corner like a gleam in Dumbledore's eye.  Some young whippersnapper 
posited that the seven horcruxes are being introduced one per book.  
I liked this theory.  I read a little bit of the thread, and it 
stuck back in the corner of my dusty old brain.  I thought about 
each book, and the 7 horsthingies.  We know that Voldie himself is 
one of them, and that the diary, the ring, the locket (not the one 
that Dumbledore gave his life to recover but the one that RAB took, 
presumably), probably Nagini (according to Dumbledore) and two other 
things, one of which might be Hufflepuff's cup and both of which 
probably once belonged to one of the founders.  Maybe.

OK, so:
1. Voldy himself is introduced in PS.
2. The diary reveals itself in COS.
3. Hmmm.  POA.  Hmmm.
4. Nagini makes his (her? its?) first appearance in GOF
5. It seems likely that RAB is the younger Black brother.  In OOP, 
while our gang is cleaning out the house on Grimmauld place they 
come across a locket which, presumably, they throw out.  Kreacher 
has been absconding with the garbage.  Could it be?
6. The ring appears on Dumbledore's withered hand in HBP.
7. ???

Well, that sat around in my brain for a while, then suddenly a few 
nights ago I woke up at two a.m., and I HAD to know what horehound 
was introduced in POA.  WHAT COULD IT BE?  I turned the light on, 
went to the other side of the room to the bookcase containing an 
entire shelf of HP, got out one of our six copies of POA, and 
starting reading.  I got to the part where Percy makes his 
appearance, and it struck me -- the Head Boy badge!  It makes 
perfect sense.  Well, to me, at least. It was once Tom Riddle's, it 
was probably made by one or more of the founders, and it's hidden in 
plain sight.  Well, what do the masses say?

OK, so what's the latest consensus on this one-per-book theory?  
And, is it my imagination, or is creating one-per-book scenarios the 
latest pasttime in the HPfanworld?  (I did breeze thru Randy's 7 
Deadly Book Sins post.)

--Joywitch M. Curmudgeon, who will go back to the porch and quietly 
sit on her rocking chair very soon.  She promises.