Re: Attn: Snape-Lovers. Possible help from an unlikely source.


"gjw" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We've seen from the casual way he threw around his first Horcrux, the
> diary, that he doesn't mind letting people see one of his Horcruxes,
> even risk its destruction, if it allows him to reach an otherwise
> unobtainable goal (such as unleashing the Basilisk).

He wasnt casual with the Diary. He left it in the keeping of Lucius Malfoy.
Im guessing that he left instructions to 'plant' it on a Hogwarts students
in
the event of his disappearance. Lucius held off doing that until after the
incident
with the Philosophers Stone when he had proof that his Master was still
alive.
He then planted the Diary on a vulnerable looking target - a first year
girl.

> Dumbledore states: "What intrigued and alarmed me most was that that
> diary had been intended as a weapon as much as a safeguard... Riddle
> really wanted that diary read, wanted the piece of his soul to inhabit
> or possess some-body else... if he intended the diary to be passed to,
> or planted on, some future Hogwarts student, he was being remarkably
> blase about that precious fragment of his soul concealed within it.
> The point of a Horcrux is to keep part of the self hidden and safe,
> not to fling it into somebody else's path and run the risk that they
> might destroy it - as indeed happened... The careless way in which
> Voldemort regarded this Horcrux seemed most ominous to me. It
> suggested that he must have made - or had been planning to make - more
> Horcruxes, so that the loss of his first would not be so detrimental."

Dumbledore has it wrong here. The Horcrux was intended to possess the victim
so that the possessed person would then seek to restore Voldemort to life.
No doubt the
person with part of Voldemorts soul inside them would have a link to
Voldemort and
be able to find him.

> In other words, he's gotten a bit cocky about his own safety. I don't
> think he would mind letting Snape know the basis of one of his traps
> if it meant destroying his worst enemy in the process. In fact, LV
> wouldn't even have to tell Snape that he had any Horcruxes at all. He
> would simply have to ask Snape if it were possible for him to put a
> fragment of his soul in a liquid form so that it could be drunk. Snape
> would say yes, it might be possible, if it were the right potion...

Voldemort isnt cocky because he made 7 Horcruxes - sooner or later
if people went after them one of the Horcruxes would achieve its goal of
possessing a person and that person would set out to restore Voldemort.

> I threw in the part about Snape making the potion because it's a neat
> little twist, given that he's the potion master, the whole book (HBP)
> obsessed with potions and Snape, and it was a potion which helped
> destroy Dumbledore.
>
> But Snape's possible involvement in the potion/Horcrux creation isn't
> really essential to the modified theory.

If Snape is good and there had been a conversation about potions and souls
then he would have told Dumbledore and Dumbledore would not have drunk
the potion. No, I think Voldemort concocted the whole cave/potion/locket
decoy
idea himself.



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