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]

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.