Comments on: Horcruxes: A Summary

By: dan

dan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:46:18 +0000

sorry- just passing by- But what happened to real science?
Is this how we expend our intelligence now?

I get the entertainmane value, but why don’t you brainiacs stop reading these books and go cure cancer or develop some kind of green energy or something.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:14:02 +0000

Laurien,

I have not seen you for ages, have you passed your exams?

Regarding the attack I think Voldemort had bonded Harry to live when he had used Harry’s blood. However Harry as a master of death had a choise: he could die.

By: Laurien

Laurien — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:59:21 +0000

I think that harry was not killed because of the elder wand in the forest he was and not LV the rightfull owner of it.
what do you think?

By: Deb B

Deb B — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:51:56 +0000

Phew!!! What a ride! I am in awe both of JKR for her storytelling and you all for your often eerie insights given the timeline of various comments. As a mom and English major, I can confidently declare this series, and especially the final three books (I started reading #5 on Saturday morning and finished #7 at 7am Monday), some of the most elaborate, intricate, and engaging stories of the modern era. What a pleasure! This series appeals to all ages. I must say, by the end of five, or certainly by the middle of 6, I was certain I was reading what would become a tragedy of heroic proportions. By the end of #7 I was reminded of a movie I recently saw, Stranger Than Fiction. Emma Thompson’s character says that when a character is willing to walk into his own death with resoluteness and determination (paraphrase), isn’t that the kind of person you would want to keep alive?

Salutations to all you who have “stuck with Harry until the very end” !!!

By: KC

KC — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:40:38 +0000

Heh, well in my defense, Harry was not a Horcrux, the portion of the soul had merely clung to him (for a Horcrux, there must be an incantation). Anyways, the power of the Elder Wand is removing the wand from the previous owner’s possession. Malfoy was the one who used the Expelliarmus curse on Dumbledore, Snape merely killed Dumbledore after he had been ‘de-wanded’. So the Elder Wand became Malfoy’s by right, and when Voldemort took the wand from Dumbledore’s tomb, he was not actually taking it from the rightful owner, so it did not answer to him. Hope that answers the question.

By: An old man

An old man — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:04:47 +0000

Winner! I also enjoyed the book.

I have a few questions though,
How did the elder wand come to be Draco Malfoy’s?
And how did Harry not die, but the part of Voldemort’s soul did?

By: KC

KC — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:23:25 +0000

I must concede defeat Mr. Cranky, I stand corrected. Great book though, I enjoyed it, despite the deaths.

By: KC

KC — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:25:43 +0000

Agreed

By: An extremely cranky old man

An extremely cranky old man — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:31:59 +0000

I do not agree with KC
Yes, and he doesn’t agree with me.
We will not fight
there will be no plight
Let us see how Deathly Hallows will be!

By: KC

KC — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:01:59 +0000

Sorry cranky old man But I do not think Harry or his scar could ever possibly be a Horcrux. I have spoken about this above, but I’ll make a quick note of it again. We may not know much about Horcrux, but we know that it does involve an incantation (as stated by Slughorn in HBP). Since it must occur after a death, then either Voldemort meant to make Harry into a Horcrux with the death of James Potter, and it was the incantation to make him into a Horcrux which backfired and nearly killed LV. However, we’ve been told on numerous occassions that the curse which Harry survived was the AK curse. We can fairly safely assume that LV is the most knowledgeable wizard to have ever lived when concerning the creation of a Horcrux as well as the procedure in making one, this makes me believe that there is no way he could just accidentally create a Horcrux without an incantation.

As far as that other thread you posted, I don’t see where they are getting Harry as the Heir of Gryffindor from, I suppose there could be some merit that James Potter is the long long long ancestor of Gryffindor, but I find it highly unlikely that LV would know this information. All of the family tree research LV did to find his own origins came from while he was still an unwanted man, by the time he would have received the half-prophecy there is no way he could have gained access to historical documents which would trace Gryffindor’s ancestry. Not to mention, that it is likely Dumbledore would have known Harry’s ancestry seeing as he has also been Headmaster when James was at school. If he had been the descendant, I would bet that Dumbledore would have shared that information with him during one of the private lessons in HBP as it is a fairly important and empowering bit of information for Harry to have.

All in all, Harry or his scar being a Horcrux is just too highly illogical for me, and thus far JKR has not made any actions which were not entirely justified and logical to the previous story plots.

My guesses that the Horcrux would have to be:
Diary, Ring, Locket, Cup, Nagini (though I’m not even certain of that one, I think this is one of Dumbledore’s “really important mistakes”), and the tiara that will be used in Bill and Fleur’s wedding. An alternate Horcrux could possibly be a wand which may have belonged to Ravenclaw, I think this becuase Ollivander’s shop was raided/abandoned suddenly during HBP with no further explanation. This leads me to think that JKR was trying to introduce an important story point for the final book without making it seem so important.