A reflection on Horcruces and Dumbledore

[terri-testing.livejournal.com]

I've argued before that Dumbledore knew from the start that Harry had become Tom's Horcrux.

But, if he were as smart as he thought he were, he should have realized that that fact alone proved that Riddle had others (or some other means of avoiding death when his body was destroyed, and Horcruces do seem to be the only known means).

He deduced that Riddle had planned to manufacture a Horcrux from the baby's death, right? Not either of the parents' deaths.

Therefore, the death that created the soul-fragment that landed in Harry, was Riddle's own from that reflected AK.

If he hadn't already been anchored to life by another Horcrux somewhere, he should have merely died.

So Dumbledore ought to have started looking for another Horcrux in 1981....

Comments

[danajsparks.livejournal.com]

Oh! I commented about something like this in one of your essays. :)

I've been speculating that DD didn't know that Tom had been making horcruxes. And he didn't know right away that Vapormort was still lurking around. All he knew was that there was a piece of Tom's soul lodged in Harry's scar. What if he thought that the soul bit in Harry was all that was left of Voldemort to deal with?

Voldemort could still "return" one day if the soul bit was able to possess Harry.

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

I rather suspect that this consideration may have had something to do with Albus's pussyfooting about Harry in the first two books. He waved the mirror of Erised in front of him to find out what Harry wanted. And there were indications of suspicions that Harry was concealing something when "Enemies of the Heir, Beware" started being written on the walls of the castle.

I am still of the opinion that the Serpensotia incident at the dueling club was because Albus wanted to know whether Harry might be a Parselmouth. Snape exceeded his orders that time. I suspect that Albus had not intended that the matter be resolved quite so *publicly*.

[danajsparks.livejournal.com]

Yes! I think Albus was regularly testing Harry to see how "active" the soul bit was. In CoS, he knew that Harry had a piece of Tom lodged his scar, so Harry was the obvious suspect