kashlie
24-11-2005, 15:08
Soooo...I have been away for a while (I had a lovely holiday, by the way) and I began reading HBP again when I got it back from my cousin. Something immediately jumped out at me and I have been forming a theory ever since...
Forgive me, because I can't find the quote, but Snape says somewhere that Dumbledore's reflexes aren't as quick as they used to be.
This got me thinking...I don't believe the ring itself had a curse on it, but rather like the locket, it was stored in something, in muggle terms, like a vat of acid...or in wizard terms, a strange potion, and the only way to get it out was by hand.
Dumbledore's hand looks blackened and dead, and delving into an unknown potion could do that. Dumbledore knows there are protections surrounding each Horcrux, but also knows he has destroy them, so would be willing to give up the use of his non-wand hand to weaken Voldemort.
Now, I started thinking about the other horcruxes after this...
The ring, in its potion, hurt the takers hand.
The locket, with its potion, hurt the takers mind.
The diary, if we assume it was meant to do it, hurt the takers soul (in the long run I believe this was designed so he could return and collect his other horcruxes).
My theory is that the protections surrounding the Horcuxes were designed to severely weaken whoever tried to take them. We know Voldemort only ever feared one man, so he may have only had Dumbledore in mind when he did it.
Think about it...by the time one person got through all the horcruxes, and found their way to Voldemort, they would not have the ability to finish him off, and assuming it was only Dumbledore he had in mind, with DD gone, Voldemort feared nothing...
Forgive me, because I can't find the quote, but Snape says somewhere that Dumbledore's reflexes aren't as quick as they used to be.
This got me thinking...I don't believe the ring itself had a curse on it, but rather like the locket, it was stored in something, in muggle terms, like a vat of acid...or in wizard terms, a strange potion, and the only way to get it out was by hand.
Dumbledore's hand looks blackened and dead, and delving into an unknown potion could do that. Dumbledore knows there are protections surrounding each Horcrux, but also knows he has destroy them, so would be willing to give up the use of his non-wand hand to weaken Voldemort.
Now, I started thinking about the other horcruxes after this...
The ring, in its potion, hurt the takers hand.
The locket, with its potion, hurt the takers mind.
The diary, if we assume it was meant to do it, hurt the takers soul (in the long run I believe this was designed so he could return and collect his other horcruxes).
My theory is that the protections surrounding the Horcuxes were designed to severely weaken whoever tried to take them. We know Voldemort only ever feared one man, so he may have only had Dumbledore in mind when he did it.
Think about it...by the time one person got through all the horcruxes, and found their way to Voldemort, they would not have the ability to finish him off, and assuming it was only Dumbledore he had in mind, with DD gone, Voldemort feared nothing...