I have a theory about that [insert HBP spoiler thing]

[sistermagpie]

usually don't do theories because I like to be right and there's a good chance I won't be, but this came to me this morning and I'm sticking it out here, long before Book 7, where everyone will have a chance to forget it if it's wrong, but I can still smugly link to it in the small chance it's right.

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[musesfool]

Or Andromeda. Andromeda seems to still be alive, if Tonks is pointedly not spending Christmas with her family.

[sistermagpie]

D'oh! How could I forget Andromeda!

[musesfool]

Well, I think most of us do, as Bella and Cissy are for more showy. But Andromeda, like Sirius, broke away from the family, so there must be some strength there. Of course, she apparently did it for love, which after HBP makes her one of the few women who actually did something proactive for herself instead of pining away tragically like a heroine in a bad romance novel. Er, I may have some issues with the women in HBP.

I wonder if a disillusioned-with-the-Death-Eaters Regulus went to her, originally, as someone who was nearly neutral ground.

[sistermagpie]

Yeah, the women in this book did not do it for me...

[go_back_chief]

Interesting! I definitely think there may be something there...

[sistermagpie]

Who knows?

[idlerat]

I'm confused- Regulus was clearly trying to undermine Voldemort in the note, so why would he spell the locket to Voldemort's most ardent supporters?

I'm thinking- re the anachronism of the locket- that it's what's *inside* the locket that's the horcrux, and protected by it.

[sistermagpie]

I don't know if Regulus would think of it that way. If his loyalty is to the Blacks, he may not see them as the same as Voldemort. If he supports Pureblood superiority but not Voldemort, that may be where his loyalties lie.

Definitely, though, the horcrux could be in the locket--the ring may have been the same idea.

[dphearson]

Right. Remember that Sirius said that his Parents support Voldie until became clear what he was doing, in terms of murder and intimidation, so perhaps a Black family member ( after reading about Blaise Zabini, this still make me laugh!) could key it and destroy it.

Or an adopted family member...

[joyfulgirl1013]

after reading about Blaise Zabini, this still make me laugh!

Oh, man, I had to read that sentence TWICE just to make sure I'd read what I thought I'd read, but it made my LIFE.

Incidentally, I found the perfect icon for it in someone's journal the other day....*points*

[_rp_zeal_]

This theory definitely sounds logical, and I would love to see it happen if it'll involve Draco ;-) Also, JK just said in one of the new interview that 'Ravenclaw's days would come', maybe there is a Ravenclaw Horcrux that Harry would need help from a Ravenclaw to open too? That'll be quite an interesting way of uniting the houses, though rather focusing too much on individuals and not enough group collaboration?

[sistermagpie]

It definitely seemed hard to believe that there wouldn't be a Ravenclaw horcrux. I'm with Voldemort in finding the pattern too tempting to throw away. I assume all the stories with each horcrux will follow their own pattern, but Harry has allies in Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff already so they may help in different ways.

[_rp_zeal_]

Oh and and, Draco-is-such-a-Black-hint-hint-wise, Draco has Sirius's mom's fine bones according to Kreacher X-D! OMG it's so exciting that in HBP we find out Draco's storyline goes way back, the hand of glory in COS, Borgin's dark art shop, Madam Malkin's robe shop in PS/SS, Narcissa's affections for Draco in GOF, Draco liking Snape from PS/SS and Snape knowing more about Draco than a teacher usually would in COS (dueling club scene, where Snape told Draco to use Serpentotia (can't spell) jinx because he knew Draco could) etc etc. And one significant element about Draco that hasn't been put into light in HBP would be Draco being a Black. So. Haha kinda excited about your theory even though we really don't know the chance of it happening.

[sistermagpie]

OMG, was there anything funnier than Draco and Harry having fighting fan elves in that scene? "Well, Mr. Malfoy moves with such grace and has beautiful bone structure..." "No, Mr. Malfoy is a bad bad boy!"

It's like fandom acted out by Kreacher and Dobby, and naturally Dobby is pummelling Kreacher when we meet him, offering to shut his mouth for him, when Kreacher is like a thousand years old.:-)

[sistermagpie]

If the theories that Harry is the final one are true, perhaps that would unintentionally (for Voldemort) complete the pattern. Dumbledore could always be wrong about where the 4 remaining ones are, so that it really is one from each house. I can't remember how it all breaks down exactly now. One's in Voldemort, one's the locket, one's possibly the cup...there's got to be some way of getting all four houses in. Maybe one horcrux is something from two houses together...?

[khilari]

There's the ring, the locket, the diary. Those are definite. Dumbledore guesses something of Ravennclaw's or Gryffindor's, the cup of Hufflepuff and Nagini. One of those is wrong if we assume Harry is the Horcrux, which I think is correct.

The cup seems likely, if he was going for Founder connections. Nagini, as Dumbledore mentions, would be a poor choice. Dumbledore says that if Voldemort was dying and used the nearest thing to him it could be her, but I think that was Harry. On the other hand he does seem to have a strong bond with her.

I'm with you on your theory, if only because the last book needs to introduce interhouse unity without them being at school.

Could the last Horcrux be the sorting hat? It would neatly include all four founders, and, since the hat itself has doubts about its job, its destruction might be a good thing.

[jodel_from_aol]

I'm inclined to agree on the Sorting Hat. The sword is a red herring. Or, rather, a decoy. We only need to find out whether there was any opportunity for Tom to have gotten hold of it at the time that a death took place