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

[oryx_leucoryx]

OK, how about this fanwank:

Tom really did intend to make the 6th Horcrux at Godric's Hollow and he had the proto-Horcrux in his pocket. But when Lily refused his polite request to step aside he got distracted and forgot he had to start the Horcrux-making before attempting to AK Harry. Later Albus found the proto-Horcrux (or one of his lackeys on the clean-up team found it and brought it to him).

Since Albus never heard of anyone making more than one Horcrux and logically one would want to ensure one's immortality *before* confronting one's destined vanquisher he thought Tom attempted to make a Horcrux with James' death. But being new to this (so Albus believed) he messed up resulting in some half-way soul situation that caused the final soul-split when the AK rebounded. And the soul-bit ended up in Harry's head rather than in the proto-Horcrux because without special direction soul-bits prefer being in heads of living beings than in inanimate objects, however well prepared.

Re: Horcrux making

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

It reads as well as some of the better fanfics, and better than the non-eplanation we got from Rowling.

Actually, the fact that canon *is* so loose and shoddy (and cluttered) gives readers, fanwriters, and theorists an amazing amount of leeway. If Rowling had built her world more solidly, we wouldn't have had half so much fun with it. And if she had taken the trouble to make the elements she imported into it *hers*, we wouldn't have had the gall to casually take it all apart and put it back together to suit ourselves so readily.

But as it stands, it constitutes a positive invitation to deconstruct and reconstruct, organize and refine, and just generally improve upon it. I mean, it's not like there isn't enough to work with. In fact, the first hurdle is to decide what you need to throw out.