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

[lynn-waterfall.livejournal.com]

Just one small thing to add. Voldemort's face had apparently made that final change even before the events in GoF, based on his (temporary) face on the back of Quirrell's head:

Petrified, he watched as Quirrell reached up and began to unwrap his turban. [...] Where there should have been a back to Quirrell's head, there was a face, the most terrible face Harry had ever seen. It was chalk white with glaring red eyes and slits for nostrils, like a snake.

Of course, Voldemort didn't see himself, so he wouldn't have known what he looked like. If there was a change between his "death" and creating the Nagini horcrux, he probably wouldn't have known it based on his face.

Re: Horcrux making

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

That is a valid point. Of course we don't know whether the face on the back of Quirrell's head was fully realized, or if it was basically just an animated mask looking out. The face that came out of the cauldron was similar enough for Harry to identify it as the same, but if Nagini really was a Horcrux, then he'd created that one after the face on Quirrell's head. It *ought* to have shown further deterioration, but I think that Rowling was just inventing a monster and not considering that LV had gotten from "handsome Tom" to what Harry had to deal with *in stages*.

If I am right about the Diary being made in '81 there *ought* to have been a brief period between it and the defeat at Godric's Hollow where his appearance had taken another hit. But we'll never get any data to suggest that was the case.