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

Re: Horcrux making

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

For that matter, we never saw him *wearing* the ring, it could have been booby trapped and he blasted himself just getting it out of its hiding place.

By that point Rowling was presenting the central plot in shorthand. Nobody's behavior makes any sense. They all jerk along like aotomations.

Re: Horcrux making

[sunnyskywalker]

The cup was booby-trapped, so it makes sense that the ring would be too.

Re: Horcrux making

[oryx_leucoryx]

Was it? I thought it had the spells the goblins put on everything?

Re: Horcrux making

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

Yes, with the Cup the booby-traps were on the place it was stored, not the object itself. But it still wasn't left where anyone could casually walk in and make off with it. Of the ones we know about only the Diadem was left unprotected, and we have no idea what was going on with that.

Indeed, the Diadem may have been stowed in the RoR decades before Tom started handing his Horcruxes out for safekeeping, or hiding them himself. We have no indication of *when* the Ring was hidden in the Gaunt's ruined hovel. It could have as early as when Tom fled Britain after killing Hepzibah Smith or as late as when he stowed the Locket in Lake Inferi (which would have been around 1979 or 1980--after Snape reported the Prophecy). But he seems to have simply bunged the Diadem into the Room with the rubbish and left it there. Even thenews that Draco had had a team of DEs parading through the place like Grand Central Station didn't prompt him to move it.