Re: destroying Horcruxes, was DD Secretly Teaching Harry Useful Skills SPOILERS
- From: dicconf@xxxxxxxxx (Richard Eney)
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:41:31 -0000
In article <7nZ_e.5970$QE1.4045@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ard Rhi <[nospam]ardrhi@earthlink(anti-spam).net> wrote:
>"gjw" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>"Ard Rhi" <[nospam]ardrhi@earthlink(anti-spam).net> wrote:
<snip>
>> One problem is that we don't know exactly what allowed Harry to
>> destroy the diary Horcrux. Was it simply a matter of destroying the
>> diary? (Would just burning the book have also done the trick?) Was
>> it the fang of the Basilisk that contained some magical ability to
>> pierce the Horcrux? Was it Harry's own blood on the fang? We haven't
>> been told.
>
>As Dumbledore said, this is where we head into theory and conjecture.
<snip>
>Dumbledore doesn't have access to Harry's blood so he couldn't have used
>that to destroy the ring. Whatever destroys horcruxes needs to be doable by
>many witches or wizards else Voldemort wouldn't have to guard each one so
>well.It's possible Dumbledore used something like a basilisk's fang, but I
>can't see Rowling writing that Dumbledore managed to defang a rare & deadly
>creature for the sake of destorying a horcrux. Nor Tom Riddle making active
>use of a creature that he knows carries such easy potential to destroy him.
>Unless, of course, anything along those lines could destory the diary and
>trying to guard against it all was pointless.
>
>Again, it's all conjecture but it seems fairly well supported and relevant.
>So I'd still wager the horcruxes are easily destroyed.
Each horcrux will be different, and each will have some point of similarity.
I just reread JKR's interview after HBP came out, in which she says that
she thought of the four Houses as each having a strong point with one of
the classical four elements: Gryffindor is fire, Ravenclaw is air,
Hufflepuff is earth and Slytherin is water. So the Slytherin connection
is to liquids. We've seen that with potions, with the Slytherin common
room being underneath the lake, and so on.
The first HC that we know of is the Diary, and its primary element is
ink. When Harry stabs it with its own weapon, the basilisk fang (possibly
with the added factor of Harry's blood, or any wizard's blood might do)
kills it and /the ink leaks out/.
The second HC we see is the ring, and we don't know what came out of that,
but clearly something did. We'll probably never know, but for sheer
speculation, I suggest that it might have been a black opal of the kind
that contains a droplet of liquid sealed in the stone, and that Voldemort
had replaced that liquid with his liquid HC.
The third HC we see is, presumably the one in the cafe. /Something/
was strongly affecting DD. I am leaning toward the idea that the real
HC was the liquid, and /that/ locket was a decoy. (The one at No.12
might still be a real HC.) If all HCs are liquid inside something
solid, then each will have to be destroyed by a feature of its own
weapon.
In the interview, JKR also mentions that we saw the HC take shape -
so perhaps each HC will take a shape, presumably that of Tom Riddle,
if it doesn't immediately manage to be swallowed or otherwise soak
into the wizard who manages to open its container. (The cave was
the container for the green liquid. I wonder whether the water
was what might have diluted it, if only DD could have managed to
drink enough, since the lake was part of its defensive weaponry.)
Assuming that the basin in the cave was not a transfigured Hufflepuff
goblet, when Harry finds that goblet he will almost certainly have
to drink something out of it. If he knows what he's doing, he'll
have a unicorn horn with him, as well as a bezoar.
=Tamar
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