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]

But the fact remains that, acto Albus, the Diary was designed to be kind-of-sort-of disposable. We have no way of telling whether this was yet another of Albus's mistakes.

Or a deliberate attempt to mislead harry. Albus was working very hard to not let Harry notice too soon that he was a Horcrux. If he didn't say the diary immediately implied the existence of more Horcruxes wouldn't Harry wonder how come Dumbledore didn't believe Tom was gone at the end of COS?

Re: Horcrux making

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

Actually we do get some canon corroboration that Tom did realize he was over his limit, although not until DHs. Or, conversely that he had completely lost interest in the Founder's relics.

He put Snape into the Headmasters post, yet he seems to have taken no interest in the Sword whatsoever. Not even to have it handed over and safely stowed somewhere where he could get at it. By that time the Sword had been sitting openly in a case in the Headmaster's office for something like 4 years. And even after his return he *never* demanded that Snape steal it and bring it to him.

Of course Rowling seems to have forgotten that Tom supposedly wanted Hogwarts, too. Once he got it, he didn't seem to have any particular interest in it apart from turning it over to minions and meddling with the curiculum. We only know of one point at which he even visited the place in person.