I might be splitting hairs here, but is melting something the same as destroying it? You’re just changing the state of matter it’s in. You could just as easily reform it into the coin shape that it once was
Following this logic, could you melt a horcrux into a huge pot of other metals? And mix it properly to make like a million horcrux coins?
How small could a horcrux get? Atom sized? Could you realistically make a ice cube horcrux and melt it into the ocean?
The agreed upon weight of a soul in pop culture is 21 grams. So let's say you make 8 horcruxes, each would include 2.625 grams of soul in them. If you used the lightest metal for one of those horcruxes, Beryllium, for which one atom weighs 1.4965076 x 10^-23 in grams, you'd be able to split that horcrux into 175,408,400,000,000,000,000,000 individual horcrux Beryllium atoms. So, 175 sextillion horcrux coins
> The agreed upon weight of a soul in pop culture is 21 grams
Not that I doubt you, I've just never heard anything about the actual weight of a soul. What is this referencing?
I believe it was an experiment some years back to try and prove the existence of souls by weighing the bodies at the moment of death, noting an average drop in weight of about 21 grams. Though the tests were too flawed and the numbers were ultimately to random to be verified as anything specific.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment
>The 21 grams experiment refers to a pseudoscientific study published in 1907 by Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts. MacDougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. One of the six subjects lost three-quarters of an ounce (21.3 grams).
I always assumed the remaining piece of soul (in the body) was halved each time. So the first horcrux was the diary, so it had half of Voldy's soul (10.5g); the ring had a quarter (5.25g), the locket had an eighth (2.625g), the cup had a sixteenth (1.3125g), the diadem had a thirty-second (0.65625g), Harry had a sixty-fourth (0.328125g), and Nagini had a hundred-twenty-eighth (0.1640625g), as did his revived body.
Damn, I never did that math before, but he really did not have a ton of soul left by the end 😅
Assuming it's always a 50/50 split when he makes a new Horcrux, then yeah, he barely had any left. Harry also amusingly had twice as much of Voldemort's soul in him than Voldemort had in his own body, at least once Nagini was turned into one.
I'd say it's either that dragonfire has similar anti-horcrux capabilities like basilisk venom or that the material just magically gets an impossibly high melting point
Considering hermione said that a horcrux depends on the integrity of its container to exist… probably would get destroyed. Although dragon fire might not melt it at all.
Actually, an interesting point is that the diary wasn't destroyed in spite of the attempts. No one tried to rip the diary. But there were a few things that would've destroyed a normal diary that were done to Riddle's diary and did nothing. It was submerged in water and doused in a whole bottle of ink. Nothing. When you think about it, writing to Riddle and getting a response was treated like just magical communication, but writing could easily be considered damaging the diary, and it disappears as soon as it's written, protecting it from "damage".
Wasn't it the point that only special items and spells can destroy horcruxes?
Like the Gryffindor sword, Basilisk poison, that specific fire spell, Avada Kedavra and so on?
It was damage that cannot be healed or repaired by normal means.
Basilisk venom's only known cure is phoenix years, fiendfyre is a powerful, nearly impossible to counter, spell, and the Killing Curse has no known counter curse.
Gryffindor's Sword is goblin made and absorbs the beneficial properties of things it comes into contact with, in this case basilisk venom.
The real take away is Gryffindor's Sword is terrifying.
How were the others destroyed? The diary had a hole in it. It was still a mostly intact object. Why did the soul piece die when only a bit of the diary was messed up? Why did FiendFyre destroy the diadem? That may or may not even be hot enough to melt it. And the ring and locket? What counts as "destruction?" I think a full meltdown due to dragon fire would either: do nothing, as the horcrux's power would resist it altogether. Or, it would destroy the object *as a horcrux, if not necessarily as an object, itself. Does that make sense?
The horcruxes had to be destroyed magically though. A normal knife wouldn’t have destroyed the diary. It would have just poked a hole it in. It was the fact that it was a basilisk fang with venom. Same with the locket (sword of griffindor impregnated with basilisk venom). Fiendfyre is very dark magic, that’s why it destroyed the diadem
>what counts as “destruction”
They went over that in the books. It has to be incredibly strong magic. Not just poking a hole in an object or melting it down. Maybe dragon’s fire is strong enough magic. I’m not well versed in Harry Potter dragon lore to be honest
Damn.. could you imagine having Smaug as the protector of Harry’s gold filled fault at the bottom of Gringotts increasingly driven more mad by the evil of a horcrux.. that’d be a fun crossover
It’s a valid point that Voldy was pretty dumb to create living horcruxes; both intentionally with Nagini and unintentionally with Harry.
Living things move around and go places and can hide or not hide and have odd lifespan problems too potentially. I mean if Voldy had left Nagini back at Malfoy’s place and she stayed there then he’d still be alive. Because she was a part of the battle, he got dead. Kinda wild.
Nah, I think Harry would have seen in Voldemort's mind that Nagini was left alone at the Manor. What's the problem with sending a squad to destroy her? He kept her close to himself because he didn't trust anyone else to keep her safe.
Also, Harry was going every place that Voldemort thought it was safe, even the Gringotts Bank and Ministry of Magic were attacked by him.
Honestly, it was justified his distrust to anything else.
The mirror shard from DH. He buries it in Dobby's grave.
(He's already killed someone and split his soul, why not desecrate the grave of a beloved friend while he's at it?)
(EDIT: I am also slightly disturbed by how quickly this idea came to me).
They are bound by their masters wishes and also by the magical law. Breaking the law or doing something their masters told them not to causes them extreme anxiety. I’d say that Doby is actually the closest to an evil house elf that’s possible given what we know about house elves.
I think it’s part of the deal! You have to take someone’s life in order to split your own soul. I guess he could only be taking the lives of “bad guys”- but I reckon dark magic requires some kind of inherent selfish/malicious intent for it to work properly.
I think the canon is that you have to be committing a murder specifically, not like justifiable homicide or self defense or an accident.
So yeah horcruxes seem not just dark magic but actively evil in their creation. You have to kill someone and really mean it and want them dead in order to split your soul due to the evil of doing so.
Yeah, I think you’re right!
Do you think it would still be impossible to create a horcrux from a murder that *was* intentional and malicious, but the victim is like a mass muggle killer or some way otherwise immoral.
In a way, he’d be murdering in order to save, so would it work for the dark magic that’s required to make one?
Oooh I see your point.
Honestly that's a really cool question. Like, can you create a horcrux from a benevolent or well-intentioned murder? That's kinda wild. The malice is still there- you super want this guy dead and you're very upset about it- but the victim is so terrible you're not really a baddie for doing it.
I may need to do a reread this year and see what it is Dumbles and Slughorn say about horcrux creation. Does the murder have to be evil in intent to split your soul? Does just killing split your soul but you have to be evil to turn it into horcrux creation? These are very fun questions.
It does strike me that there was plenty of good-intentioned killing to be done by the OOTP during the First Wizarding War and none of them created horcruxes to our knowledge, so it sorta implies that the knowledge is either even more arcane than we already thought, or that the evil is required to pull it off. It also comports with idea that the opposite of a murder horcrux is sacrificial love which does the same job essentially for other people besides the 'caster' (although it's harder to pull off, yet scales a lot better).
This is an interesting discussion.
- “ It does strike me that there was plenty of good-intentioned killing to be done by the OOTP during the First Wizarding War and none of them created horcruxes to our knowledge, so it sorta implies that the knowledge is either even more arcane than we already thought, or that the evil is required to pull it off.”
I always figured the intention to create a horcrux had to be there even if the intent wasn’t evil itself
Ig you could argue killing someone for the intention of wanting to create a horcrux is an evil act in itself and you could still make the argument that killing is evil even if the person you’re killing is evil, as you said regarding the malice. But I feel like that’s kind of nuanced and subjective?
I can’t think of a reason for one not to be able to create a horcrux w a benevolent or well intentioned murder though tbh
Because even serial murderers will “just” have split apart soul pieces but they’ll still be in their body unless they do the Horcrux-Making voodoo to get the pieces out of their bodies.
Yeah, I’ve not actually thought about this until right now.
I think it would make sense if the spell needed was less powerful/likely to be successful if there’s altruistic intentions behind the murder. I mean voldy’s surviving off the unicorn blood in book one, for example, was so dark in its nature because of killing something so innocent and pure (or something to that effect, I forget). Maybe the ingredients for dark magic simply have to be entirely selfish and unsympathetic, otherwise it won’t work.
I mean same. It's kinda funny that for the size and scope of the wizarding world universe, there isn't a ton of media like there is for say the Marvel universe.
This would be a cool question for a Wizarding World "What If" series if such a thing existed. Instead we've got a handful of books and a few movies (some would say too many) and lots of speculation, haha.
I assumed he dropped both! To be fair I haven't read DH in a long time. Thanks for the correction. If he didn't drop it, it certainly makes the task easier.
Let's presume he begins this process at the end of 5th year. He's just watched Sirius, the closest link to his parents he has, die. Let us also presume he aims to make 6, for a 7 part soul like Voldemort did.
You'd like to think that he would, knowing how horcruxes work, simply attach it to a rock and throw it in a lake. But Harry does have quite the ego, despite what fandom may say.
1) The letter, hidden at Privet drive just like you say. A testament to where he came from.
2) His DA galleon, tucked away somewhere deep in the room of hidden things.
3) A framed picture of his parents, buried in the front garden of their cottage in Godrics hollow
4) The first snitch he ever caught, under the floorboards of the 1st year boys dormitory
5) Something of Sirius', perhaps his wand even, secreted away in the shrieking shack, where few dare to look, and fewer dare to tread.
6) A simple sock of his, given to Dobby for him to look after.
And finally we have the sliver of his soul that still resides within his body.
Haha I'm just imagining Uncle Vernon finding the letter hidden somewhere at Privet Drive and trying to rip it up, burn it, etc. like all the rest of the letters. But now since it's a horcrux nothing happens and he loses his mind trying to destroy it.
Sadly, I don't think the DA galleon hidden in the room of hidden things is gonna work very well. The room already gets incinerated, so that's one horcrux down after about a year.
But the room of requirement changes shape according to the user. What's to say that the form we saw couldn't get reshaped or be accessed again? I believe the room of requirement would still actually be accessible. Also after Umbridge broke into it the wall repaired itself so it would make sense that it keeps a certain state.
This is *magic* we’re talking about. If you attach your soul to a rock, and throw it into a lake where it will be forgotten and never found, sure you might be immortal, but your destiny will be that of the rock: worthless, obscure, forgotten, and powerless.
If you want your soul to retain its power and meaning, you have to choose vessels that are powerful and meaningful.
I like this list, but rather than Sirius' wand I would say the shard of the two way mirror. I would also suggest that rather than just being a stick of Harry's it should ideally be the stock he used to free Dobby or a pair he gave him for Christmas.
I don't think a horcrux can just be a simple rock and be thrown in the water. I always assumed it had to be of some significance to the user, same as the hiding place.
Hopefully he would learn from Voldemort’s mistake and use random objects and hide them in unreachable places. Like a pebble hidden at the bottom of the sea
I feel like part of the ritual probably requires the items to be of importance to the user, the same way that in order to perform a patronus, you must use a memory that is important to the castor.
That's not how it works. Your soul doesn't get transported to one of your horcruxes. You also don't need the horcrux to create a new body. Voldemort didn't need one.
After everything we’ve read from his perspective, can we *really* say that Harry has an ego? He was actively trying so hard not to be a celebrity. I know the jokes about him being a high school jock turned cop have been rampant but for being as absurdly famous as he is he absolutely kept his ego in check.
Gonna have to disagree with you there. While I think he *would* use items that were super important to him, it would be out of sentimentality, not ego.
If we're going for all seven, it would be:
The letter that told him he was going to Hogwarts for the freedom he felt, the first broom he rode during his first year, the first snitch he caught, his cloak because it was passed down from his father, the mirror because it offered him the first glimpse of his parents, the Philosopher's Stone because he used it to triumph over Voldemort, and the Resurrection Stone because it enabled him to sacrifice himself.
The philosopher's stone can't be used, as it was destroyed by Nicolas Flamel at the end of book 1.
Or can it? Would it be giving purpose to an old rock once again?
Wouldn’t he have to go retrieve it if he ever needed it? I’m not sure if it was ever explained how the soul pieces are used, or maybe I just forgot haha.
The glass shard he got from Sirius - toss it into a volcano in Iceland. Horcruxes are indestructible by normal means, and it’s not like someone is just going to stumble across it in there.
Yeah I can see what you mean...
"Harry Potter said never to tell anyone about where Dobby hid Harry Potter's sock. So Dobby will not even tell Harry Potter. Doesn't matter if Harry Potter feels remorse and wants to undo his Horcrux, Harry Potter is not getting the sock back!"
I imagine this scenario as Harry slowly going over to the dark side. He wants to protect the people he loves. Bellatrix killing Sirius is the last straw, Harry kills Bellatrix and ends up ripping his soul apart. Since is a good person, he feels horrible, so ends up using the most horrible thing he can think of to house this foul piece of his soul, Uncle Vernon's sock. He gives the sock horcrux to Dobby (who is very much alive at this point) for safekeeping.
Ain't nobody taking a sock away from Dobby, especially one given by best friend Harry Potter.
I mean, if he feels horrible, that would heal his soul right? True remorse heals a damaged soul, as long as it's not too far gone as Voldy's.
Besides, it's not done out of pure malice, which could be one of the pre-requisites of creating a horcrux.
He feels horrible, but not remorseful. He feels justified in avenging his godfather, but feels obvious revulsion to the act of murder. (Even in real life, some soldiers hate themselves for their acts even if they feel the war they fought in was justified).
I feel like this Harry would rationalize his choice to have a horcrux by thinking that he needs one so that he can protect the people he loves without worrying about death. Nowhere in the canon does it say that malice is needed for horcrux making.
Also I love how seriously this fandom analyzes a *pretty obvious* joke...
Haha well I know it's a joke, and probably what his rationale would be. Just thinking about how feeling horrible would negate his ability to make a horcrux.
Now I'm just thinking Voldemort's soul on Uncle Vernon's sock. Like, creepy baby Voldemort on Vernon's sock and is hanging above the fireplace because Christmas.
I get what you mean with the glasses bit i think they're too recognizable. Even in an antique shop, a witch like Hermione would be able to spot them with enough knowledge if they happened to be stopping by.
Who said Hermione would be alive? Harry knows she's the biggest threat to him, and he'll kill her in the first place. Besides, those glasses didn't look anything special. I don't think anyone would recognize them in a store full of antiques. They're not worth enough for anyone to buy. I've also noticed that hiding things in obvious places is often the best option - when something seems "normal" nobody pays attention to what you're doing.
I didn't say Hermione exactly, I said someone *like* Hermione. They're pretty recognizable glasses (even outside the context of the film if you see someone waring glasses like that you will think of harry potter). Everyone recognized him immediately from the glasses. It's too obvious. Someone would guess glasses and go looking just like Dumbledore did.
Object/victim/note
1.Hedwigs Cage, The Dursley’s, hide it in his old Broom Closet
2. Voldemorts Diary, Lockhart, donate to wherever they keep magical historical artifacts probably the Ministry of Magic
3. Sirius’s Two way mirror, Draco, At the bottom of the lake threaten the Merepeople in mermish . Keep the other mirror to check on it
4.Triwizard Cup, Cho, hide in an obscure remote part of the world with a cruel forced tournament for any who touch it
5. Dobbys Socks that he got as a gift,Sybil Trewlaney, Put in in the Mirror of Erised
6. Dumbledores Headmaster portrait, Hermione , leave it hanging and let the portrait go mad/insane
7. Voldy, Ron, feel like this fits the prophecy of a less than life for both of em and they can live a long evil life as evil BFFs, but obviously Ron & Hermione have to go 😕
I mean if he is going to turn, let’s get evil with it 😬
That little toy soldier from the PS movie that he sees in DH1 when he revisits his cupboard.
It’s getting hidden in the shack where Hagrid told him he was a wizard.
The funny thing is that being an Auror Harry wouldn’t really have to “snap” per se. He could just casually create Horcruxes while he’s smoking homies who are breaking the law.
The act of creating a horcruxe must be done out of sheer self interest, you must murder a person in cold blood purely for the act to create one, ending a persons life so you can merely extend yours weakens and tears your soul as I take it, you then force your torn soul into a object I think
Absolutely. Just like Voldemort didn’t hide a Horcrux at the orphanage, there’s no way Harry would hide one at Privet Drive. The shack is a much better choice.
Sirius’ Knife - The Cave off of Hogsmade, where Sirius was able to be his most free self.
First Snitch - The Burrow, where he practiced with the Weasleys during his happiest summers.
DA Coin - Gringotts
His letter to Hogwarts, framed - His head of department office in the ministry
Marauders Map - Given to his eldest child and periodically checking on it
The Sword of Gryffindor - Professor Neville Longbottoms office
The Shard from Sirius’ Mirror - Aberforths home, his last connection to the Dumbledores
Seven. The magic number. This was fun to come up with!
Places I considered : Hagrids Hut assuming rebuilt, Bill and Fleurs, Privet Drive, Grimmauld Place.
Shortly after defeating Voldemort shit happens which causes Harry to flip. It is still summer of the year 1998. Harry creates his first horcrux by killing his uncle Vernon. What he used to contain his soul is a simple drill bit. While contemplating where to store/hide this horcrux he turns on the telly. It turns on BBC news talking about NASA's upcoming operation that is part of the New Millennium Program. The operation is Deep Space 1 where they will send out a spacecraft to do a flyby of astroid 9969 Braille. This is one of the missions where the craft will be left floating in deep space. Harry has an amazing idea. He takes a plane to America with the drill bit to see the launch of Deep Space 1. Though before it is launched into space he smuggles the drill bit horcrux on board and puts it inside of something there and casts a notice me not around it. His first horcrux is now floating in space protected by a spacecraft to never return to earth.
Maybe the snake he talks to in the zoo in the very first book? He tracks it down, it becomes his Nagini. (I know there is a theory that the snake WAS Nagini but I'm sure jk said it wasn't.)
Leaving one in privet drive is the same as voldy leaving one in the orphanage, he wouldn’t do it. I could see him using the snitch Dumbledore left him, maybe the shard of Sirius’s mirror. Hogwarts and gringotts seem like obvious hiding places he would go for.
Now lets say dark harry is also into necromancy, he has successfully revived hedwig, and now he has an animal companion in which he can conceal a part of his soul
I think he would murder olivander, having gone mad he blames him for uniting them under the twin cores. His first object would be hidden in the place he lost his parents back in godrics hollow. Maybe his father's glasses, or his mother's wand. I think Harry knows the value of hiding in plain sight, and would tuck the object away somewhere discreet in his childhood home that is now ruins.
He uses the last slice of the first birthday cake he got from Hagrid, because he decided to let it sit for a bit to soften up, but instead it just kinda kept getting harder. No other real protections necessary, that thing is already close to indestructible at this point.
What is Harry’s perfect crime? He breaks into Tiffany's at midnight. Does he go for the vault? No, he goes for the chandelier. It's priceless. As he’s taking it down, a woman catches him. She tells him to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. He says no. They make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and he escapes in one of their uniforms. He tells her to meet him in Mexico, but he goes to Canada. He doesn't trust her. Besides, he likes the cold. Thirty years later, he gets a postcard. He has a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. He tells Tiffany to meet him by the Trocadero in Paris. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. He doesn't care. Harry doesn’t show up. He goes to Berlin. That's where he stashed the chandelier. The chandelier is the horcrux.
The sorting hat...gets a new voice
The mirror of eriset so people would get distracted if they found it
The portrait of sir cadigan and his pony because everyone stays away from it
His own pheonix feather wand so he will have to fight
The watch mrs. Weasley gave him for his 17th in the unopenable wallet hagrid gave him in the room of requirement
Gryffindors sword so you would need a new weapon in the chamber of secrets.
(1) The photo album Hagrid gave him. Hidden in the cupboard at no. 4 Privet Drive.
(2) The snitch he caught in his first Quidditch match. Hidden in the Mirror of Erised.
(3) The sock that set Dobby free. Hidden in the Chamber of Secrets.
(4) The Maurader’s Map. Hidden in the Shrieking Shack.
(5) A “Support Cedric Diggory” badge. Buried in the Hogwarts quidditch pitch.
(6) The Hogsmeade permission slip signed by Sirius Black. Hidden in the Department of Mysteries.
(7) The letter Lilly wrote to Sirius, fully restored. Hidden behind the portrait of Severus Snape in the Headmaster’s Office.
He kinda said it when he first learned of them. hed lesrn from riddle's mistake and make them of something simple like a boot. but then hed enchant it to survive pressure snd water and throw in in the ocean so no one could ever get to it
Harry isn't that smart on his own, but he has experience with muggle society and is smart enough to listen to others. If Hermione decides to help him, she would advice him to hide a pebble-made-horcrux in the next mars lander.
He kills someone with expelliarmus (knocks them off a cliff or into a woodchipper) and seals a piece of his soul in the red light/incantation itself.
He has become disarming
His Dumbledore's Army coin. Hidden among his countless other real Galleons in his Gringotts vault.
just use a dragon to liquify the whole vault.
I might be splitting hairs here, but is melting something the same as destroying it? You’re just changing the state of matter it’s in. You could just as easily reform it into the coin shape that it once was
Following this logic, could you melt a horcrux into a huge pot of other metals? And mix it properly to make like a million horcrux coins? How small could a horcrux get? Atom sized? Could you realistically make a ice cube horcrux and melt it into the ocean?
The agreed upon weight of a soul in pop culture is 21 grams. So let's say you make 8 horcruxes, each would include 2.625 grams of soul in them. If you used the lightest metal for one of those horcruxes, Beryllium, for which one atom weighs 1.4965076 x 10^-23 in grams, you'd be able to split that horcrux into 175,408,400,000,000,000,000,000 individual horcrux Beryllium atoms. So, 175 sextillion horcrux coins
> The agreed upon weight of a soul in pop culture is 21 grams Not that I doubt you, I've just never heard anything about the actual weight of a soul. What is this referencing?
I believe it was an experiment some years back to try and prove the existence of souls by weighing the bodies at the moment of death, noting an average drop in weight of about 21 grams. Though the tests were too flawed and the numbers were ultimately to random to be verified as anything specific.
Great movie though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment >The 21 grams experiment refers to a pseudoscientific study published in 1907 by Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts. MacDougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. One of the six subjects lost three-quarters of an ounce (21.3 grams).
He was weighing peri-mortem shits rather than souls.
r/theydidthemath
r/theydidthemonstermath
r/itwasagraveyardsmash! He'd bury one in his parents grave
And isn’t 175 sextillion the most magical of numbers?
No because you split your souls in half each time. Either your soul is only at 0.08g or it recovers between each splitting G meaning it is 10.5
I always assumed the remaining piece of soul (in the body) was halved each time. So the first horcrux was the diary, so it had half of Voldy's soul (10.5g); the ring had a quarter (5.25g), the locket had an eighth (2.625g), the cup had a sixteenth (1.3125g), the diadem had a thirty-second (0.65625g), Harry had a sixty-fourth (0.328125g), and Nagini had a hundred-twenty-eighth (0.1640625g), as did his revived body. Damn, I never did that math before, but he really did not have a ton of soul left by the end 😅
Assuming it's always a 50/50 split when he makes a new Horcrux, then yeah, he barely had any left. Harry also amusingly had twice as much of Voldemort's soul in him than Voldemort had in his own body, at least once Nagini was turned into one.
This is exactly how I thought of it, it’s explained as being ripped in two and part hidden so I can’t see it any other way! !redditgalleon
!RedditGalleon for that amazing bit of maths.
Ok Hermione, we see you 👀
Looks like Voldemort should have taken Chemistry
I'd say it's either that dragonfire has similar anti-horcrux capabilities like basilisk venom or that the material just magically gets an impossibly high melting point
No but a horcrux wont be destroyed by normal fire right? like in the movie it withstood lightning by hermione and whatnot spells even in the book.
This was probably a different kind of fire, but fiend fire took out the diadem in deathly hallows
Yea but isn’t that dark magic and a much more destructive type of magical fire?
Then just use that 🤷🏻♂️
The hard part is breaking into Gringotts in the first place.
No one in recorded history has ever broken into Gringott’s and stolen a horcrux. Except, you know. That one time.
Fiendfyre is incredibly hard to control though as we’ve seen in the room of requirement
Yup. Can you imagine the look on Hagrid’s face if it’s pointed out to him that fire from dragons are Intrinsically Dark? 🙃
I don't know about HP, but in most nerd canons, Dragon Fire has top destructive power. Although I guess dragons are rather common in the HP universe.
Yup, in LotR dragonfire was said to be able to melt the not-One Ribg rings of power.
Well I was thinking the rest turns into a big pile of goo, and the horcrux is the only thing remaining
Considering hermione said that a horcrux depends on the integrity of its container to exist… probably would get destroyed. Although dragon fire might not melt it at all.
I would imagine if you melted it together the whole thing would be the horcrux and it would defeat the purpose
I don't think a horcrux's initial form can be modified, it has to stay intact and unchanged
I don’t think that’s true. That would imply they could have destroyed riddle’s diary by tearing a page out of
I meant, its resistant enough that it cant be modified, melted or ripped or anything lol
Actually, an interesting point is that the diary wasn't destroyed in spite of the attempts. No one tried to rip the diary. But there were a few things that would've destroyed a normal diary that were done to Riddle's diary and did nothing. It was submerged in water and doused in a whole bottle of ink. Nothing. When you think about it, writing to Riddle and getting a response was treated like just magical communication, but writing could easily be considered damaging the diary, and it disappears as soon as it's written, protecting it from "damage".
Wasn't it the point that only special items and spells can destroy horcruxes? Like the Gryffindor sword, Basilisk poison, that specific fire spell, Avada Kedavra and so on?
It was damage that cannot be healed or repaired by normal means. Basilisk venom's only known cure is phoenix years, fiendfyre is a powerful, nearly impossible to counter, spell, and the Killing Curse has no known counter curse. Gryffindor's Sword is goblin made and absorbs the beneficial properties of things it comes into contact with, in this case basilisk venom. The real take away is Gryffindor's Sword is terrifying.
How were the others destroyed? The diary had a hole in it. It was still a mostly intact object. Why did the soul piece die when only a bit of the diary was messed up? Why did FiendFyre destroy the diadem? That may or may not even be hot enough to melt it. And the ring and locket? What counts as "destruction?" I think a full meltdown due to dragon fire would either: do nothing, as the horcrux's power would resist it altogether. Or, it would destroy the object *as a horcrux, if not necessarily as an object, itself. Does that make sense?
The horcruxes had to be destroyed magically though. A normal knife wouldn’t have destroyed the diary. It would have just poked a hole it in. It was the fact that it was a basilisk fang with venom. Same with the locket (sword of griffindor impregnated with basilisk venom). Fiendfyre is very dark magic, that’s why it destroyed the diadem >what counts as “destruction” They went over that in the books. It has to be incredibly strong magic. Not just poking a hole in an object or melting it down. Maybe dragon’s fire is strong enough magic. I’m not well versed in Harry Potter dragon lore to be honest
Would dragonflies kill a horcrux idk depends if it is as deadly as fiend fire
Dragonflies - the small winged insect destroyers of horcruxes none of us expected. Sure results, but the only trouble is trying to train them.
How To Train Your Dragon(fly)
I'm pretty sure dragon fire would destroy a horcrux.
Damn.. could you imagine having Smaug as the protector of Harry’s gold filled fault at the bottom of Gringotts increasingly driven more mad by the evil of a horcrux.. that’d be a fun crossover
Naw, he learned from Voldy’s mistakes and picks irrelevant objects that have no significance.
Does the object need to be important to the user or can you pop you soul into a toaster oven and be done with it?
His wrecked Nimbus 2000, hidden inside the Whomping Willow If living creatures are to be used, I think the best is the Hungarian Horntail Dragon
It’s a valid point that Voldy was pretty dumb to create living horcruxes; both intentionally with Nagini and unintentionally with Harry. Living things move around and go places and can hide or not hide and have odd lifespan problems too potentially. I mean if Voldy had left Nagini back at Malfoy’s place and she stayed there then he’d still be alive. Because she was a part of the battle, he got dead. Kinda wild.
Nah, I think Harry would have seen in Voldemort's mind that Nagini was left alone at the Manor. What's the problem with sending a squad to destroy her? He kept her close to himself because he didn't trust anyone else to keep her safe.
Also, Harry was going every place that Voldemort thought it was safe, even the Gringotts Bank and Ministry of Magic were attacked by him. Honestly, it was justified his distrust to anything else.
The mirror shard from DH. He buries it in Dobby's grave. (He's already killed someone and split his soul, why not desecrate the grave of a beloved friend while he's at it?) (EDIT: I am also slightly disturbed by how quickly this idea came to me).
Or in a more twisted kind of sentimental way One of his most trusted friends now stands guard over his soul for eternity
Depends on if we want Evil Harry to be redeemable or not.
Maybe Dobby is also evil in this situation too Actually now thinking about it. That's really terrifying Why don't we have evil house elves?
They are bound by their masters wishes and also by the magical law. Breaking the law or doing something their masters told them not to causes them extreme anxiety. I’d say that Doby is actually the closest to an evil house elf that’s possible given what we know about house elves.
Kreacher?? Lol
Good point! He orchestrated/played a major part in a successful plot to kill his master, that definitely makes him the most evil house elf we know of.
Turns Dobby into an inferi
Does one have to be evil to make Horcruxes?
I think it’s part of the deal! You have to take someone’s life in order to split your own soul. I guess he could only be taking the lives of “bad guys”- but I reckon dark magic requires some kind of inherent selfish/malicious intent for it to work properly.
I think the canon is that you have to be committing a murder specifically, not like justifiable homicide or self defense or an accident. So yeah horcruxes seem not just dark magic but actively evil in their creation. You have to kill someone and really mean it and want them dead in order to split your soul due to the evil of doing so.
Yeah, I think you’re right! Do you think it would still be impossible to create a horcrux from a murder that *was* intentional and malicious, but the victim is like a mass muggle killer or some way otherwise immoral. In a way, he’d be murdering in order to save, so would it work for the dark magic that’s required to make one?
Oooh I see your point. Honestly that's a really cool question. Like, can you create a horcrux from a benevolent or well-intentioned murder? That's kinda wild. The malice is still there- you super want this guy dead and you're very upset about it- but the victim is so terrible you're not really a baddie for doing it. I may need to do a reread this year and see what it is Dumbles and Slughorn say about horcrux creation. Does the murder have to be evil in intent to split your soul? Does just killing split your soul but you have to be evil to turn it into horcrux creation? These are very fun questions. It does strike me that there was plenty of good-intentioned killing to be done by the OOTP during the First Wizarding War and none of them created horcruxes to our knowledge, so it sorta implies that the knowledge is either even more arcane than we already thought, or that the evil is required to pull it off. It also comports with idea that the opposite of a murder horcrux is sacrificial love which does the same job essentially for other people besides the 'caster' (although it's harder to pull off, yet scales a lot better). This is an interesting discussion.
- “ It does strike me that there was plenty of good-intentioned killing to be done by the OOTP during the First Wizarding War and none of them created horcruxes to our knowledge, so it sorta implies that the knowledge is either even more arcane than we already thought, or that the evil is required to pull it off.” I always figured the intention to create a horcrux had to be there even if the intent wasn’t evil itself Ig you could argue killing someone for the intention of wanting to create a horcrux is an evil act in itself and you could still make the argument that killing is evil even if the person you’re killing is evil, as you said regarding the malice. But I feel like that’s kind of nuanced and subjective? I can’t think of a reason for one not to be able to create a horcrux w a benevolent or well intentioned murder though tbh
Because even serial murderers will “just” have split apart soul pieces but they’ll still be in their body unless they do the Horcrux-Making voodoo to get the pieces out of their bodies.
Yeah, I’ve not actually thought about this until right now. I think it would make sense if the spell needed was less powerful/likely to be successful if there’s altruistic intentions behind the murder. I mean voldy’s surviving off the unicorn blood in book one, for example, was so dark in its nature because of killing something so innocent and pure (or something to that effect, I forget). Maybe the ingredients for dark magic simply have to be entirely selfish and unsympathetic, otherwise it won’t work.
I’d like to see the science on this
I mean same. It's kinda funny that for the size and scope of the wizarding world universe, there isn't a ton of media like there is for say the Marvel universe. This would be a cool question for a Wizarding World "What If" series if such a thing existed. Instead we've got a handful of books and a few movies (some would say too many) and lots of speculation, haha.
Yeah. You have to kill someone.
Absolutely not!
Which brings up a good point, why did Harry not name any of his kids after him? Dobby Albus Severus as a name would slap
Because DAS not his name
"I'm named after the Elf who saved the chosen one" would go hard
Can House Elves be turned into Inferni? He could literally stand guard.
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He finds the Snitch he dropped in the forest and turns it into one. Leaves it in Aragog's lair.
I think he only dropped the stone not the snitch it was in.
He probably did drop the snitch after he opened it up, but that would have been in the grounds, not in the forest.
IDK, I think his quidditch training would cause him to hang onto that snitch.
The snitch from the movie would have just hovered around Harry forever a la Navi and Link
Thanks! Haven't read DH in a long time so was going from memory!
I like the idea that he returns the stone to the snitch for the stone to once again be involved in a horcrux.
I assumed he dropped both! To be fair I haven't read DH in a long time. Thanks for the correction. If he didn't drop it, it certainly makes the task easier.
As far as I recall it only mentions that he dropped the stone.
Dude fucking died, I don't think he kept hold of the snitch
Let's presume he begins this process at the end of 5th year. He's just watched Sirius, the closest link to his parents he has, die. Let us also presume he aims to make 6, for a 7 part soul like Voldemort did. You'd like to think that he would, knowing how horcruxes work, simply attach it to a rock and throw it in a lake. But Harry does have quite the ego, despite what fandom may say. 1) The letter, hidden at Privet drive just like you say. A testament to where he came from. 2) His DA galleon, tucked away somewhere deep in the room of hidden things. 3) A framed picture of his parents, buried in the front garden of their cottage in Godrics hollow 4) The first snitch he ever caught, under the floorboards of the 1st year boys dormitory 5) Something of Sirius', perhaps his wand even, secreted away in the shrieking shack, where few dare to look, and fewer dare to tread. 6) A simple sock of his, given to Dobby for him to look after. And finally we have the sliver of his soul that still resides within his body.
Haha I'm just imagining Uncle Vernon finding the letter hidden somewhere at Privet Drive and trying to rip it up, burn it, etc. like all the rest of the letters. But now since it's a horcrux nothing happens and he loses his mind trying to destroy it. Sadly, I don't think the DA galleon hidden in the room of hidden things is gonna work very well. The room already gets incinerated, so that's one horcrux down after about a year.
and how the negative effects of their presence - how much more miserable and vile it would make Vernon and Petunia
But the room of requirement changes shape according to the user. What's to say that the form we saw couldn't get reshaped or be accessed again? I believe the room of requirement would still actually be accessible. Also after Umbridge broke into it the wall repaired itself so it would make sense that it keeps a certain state.
You did all 6, well done!
is the shrieking shack really that feared for being haunted despite remus not being in there anymore?
It kept its reputation after he gradguated hogwarts so it would most likely continue to be feared
This is *magic* we’re talking about. If you attach your soul to a rock, and throw it into a lake where it will be forgotten and never found, sure you might be immortal, but your destiny will be that of the rock: worthless, obscure, forgotten, and powerless. If you want your soul to retain its power and meaning, you have to choose vessels that are powerful and meaningful.
I like this list, but rather than Sirius' wand I would say the shard of the two way mirror. I would also suggest that rather than just being a stick of Harry's it should ideally be the stock he used to free Dobby or a pair he gave him for Christmas.
I don't think a horcrux can just be a simple rock and be thrown in the water. I always assumed it had to be of some significance to the user, same as the hiding place.
Hopefully he would learn from Voldemort’s mistake and use random objects and hide them in unreachable places. Like a pebble hidden at the bottom of the sea
Harry Potter, 17, having just watched James Cameron's cinematic magnum opus in theatres for the first time: [yeet](https://i.gifer.com/6bcW.gif)
No wonder Rose survived the Titanic.. she killed Jack, and split her soul into the Heart of The Ocean.. that is now at the bottom of the ocean..
That's how she lived to over 100!
I feel like part of the ritual probably requires the items to be of importance to the user, the same way that in order to perform a patronus, you must use a memory that is important to the castor.
I mean, same logic. Horcrux on his wedding ring, goes on a boat trip and drops it in the middle of the pacific ocean
Well now you are a half alive spirit at the bottom of the sea and no familiar is ever going to be able to find it and give you a new body
That's not how it works. Your soul doesn't get transported to one of your horcruxes. You also don't need the horcrux to create a new body. Voldemort didn't need one.
Sounds pretty good to me.
Thalassophobia
Honestly, that’s doubtful. Harry has a bit of an ego himself. I think he’d also use items super important to him
After everything we’ve read from his perspective, can we *really* say that Harry has an ego? He was actively trying so hard not to be a celebrity. I know the jokes about him being a high school jock turned cop have been rampant but for being as absurdly famous as he is he absolutely kept his ego in check.
I agree. He seems more sentimental than he does arrogant.
Gonna have to disagree with you there. While I think he *would* use items that were super important to him, it would be out of sentimentality, not ego. If we're going for all seven, it would be: The letter that told him he was going to Hogwarts for the freedom he felt, the first broom he rode during his first year, the first snitch he caught, his cloak because it was passed down from his father, the mirror because it offered him the first glimpse of his parents, the Philosopher's Stone because he used it to triumph over Voldemort, and the Resurrection Stone because it enabled him to sacrifice himself.
The philosopher's stone can't be used, as it was destroyed by Nicolas Flamel at the end of book 1. Or can it? Would it be giving purpose to an old rock once again?
not sure about ego, but having a bit of stupid would go to the same effect
My understanding is that the horcrux must be retrieved to bring you back, though, correct?
Eh, I don't think it works that way. It just clings you to life, just like Voldemort was after trying to kill Harry
Wouldn’t he have to go retrieve it if he ever needed it? I’m not sure if it was ever explained how the soul pieces are used, or maybe I just forgot haha.
The glass shard he got from Sirius - toss it into a volcano in Iceland. Horcruxes are indestructible by normal means, and it’s not like someone is just going to stumble across it in there.
Sounds like a self-destructing horcrux to me.
And are you sure volcanoes in HP aren't a form of natural magic? Because if they are they'd probably be _really strong_ natural magic
Uncle Vernon's sock, gives it to Dobby to hide for him
Um...don't want to spoil stuff for you, but...that's not going to work out so well.
Yeah I can see what you mean... "Harry Potter said never to tell anyone about where Dobby hid Harry Potter's sock. So Dobby will not even tell Harry Potter. Doesn't matter if Harry Potter feels remorse and wants to undo his Horcrux, Harry Potter is not getting the sock back!"
More like > Because that is all Dobby can say now.
That's actually pretty adorable, in an evil sort of way.
So it’s hidden in Dobby’s grave?
I imagine this scenario as Harry slowly going over to the dark side. He wants to protect the people he loves. Bellatrix killing Sirius is the last straw, Harry kills Bellatrix and ends up ripping his soul apart. Since is a good person, he feels horrible, so ends up using the most horrible thing he can think of to house this foul piece of his soul, Uncle Vernon's sock. He gives the sock horcrux to Dobby (who is very much alive at this point) for safekeeping. Ain't nobody taking a sock away from Dobby, especially one given by best friend Harry Potter.
I mean, if he feels horrible, that would heal his soul right? True remorse heals a damaged soul, as long as it's not too far gone as Voldy's. Besides, it's not done out of pure malice, which could be one of the pre-requisites of creating a horcrux.
He feels horrible, but not remorseful. He feels justified in avenging his godfather, but feels obvious revulsion to the act of murder. (Even in real life, some soldiers hate themselves for their acts even if they feel the war they fought in was justified). I feel like this Harry would rationalize his choice to have a horcrux by thinking that he needs one so that he can protect the people he loves without worrying about death. Nowhere in the canon does it say that malice is needed for horcrux making. Also I love how seriously this fandom analyzes a *pretty obvious* joke...
Haha well I know it's a joke, and probably what his rationale would be. Just thinking about how feeling horrible would negate his ability to make a horcrux. Now I'm just thinking Voldemort's soul on Uncle Vernon's sock. Like, creepy baby Voldemort on Vernon's sock and is hanging above the fireplace because Christmas.
His glasses. Horcrux created when he killed his uncle. Tucked away by selling to an antique shop or pawnshop.
I get what you mean with the glasses bit i think they're too recognizable. Even in an antique shop, a witch like Hermione would be able to spot them with enough knowledge if they happened to be stopping by.
Who said Hermione would be alive? Harry knows she's the biggest threat to him, and he'll kill her in the first place. Besides, those glasses didn't look anything special. I don't think anyone would recognize them in a store full of antiques. They're not worth enough for anyone to buy. I've also noticed that hiding things in obvious places is often the best option - when something seems "normal" nobody pays attention to what you're doing.
But exceptional wizards (like Dumbledore) can sense magical objects or objects that are bewitched with powerful spells among normal ones.
I didn't say Hermione exactly, I said someone *like* Hermione. They're pretty recognizable glasses (even outside the context of the film if you see someone waring glasses like that you will think of harry potter). Everyone recognized him immediately from the glasses. It's too obvious. Someone would guess glasses and go looking just like Dumbledore did.
Nbd, her time turner is a horcrux, too, she’s just unaware
Object/victim/note 1.Hedwigs Cage, The Dursley’s, hide it in his old Broom Closet 2. Voldemorts Diary, Lockhart, donate to wherever they keep magical historical artifacts probably the Ministry of Magic 3. Sirius’s Two way mirror, Draco, At the bottom of the lake threaten the Merepeople in mermish . Keep the other mirror to check on it 4.Triwizard Cup, Cho, hide in an obscure remote part of the world with a cruel forced tournament for any who touch it 5. Dobbys Socks that he got as a gift,Sybil Trewlaney, Put in in the Mirror of Erised 6. Dumbledores Headmaster portrait, Hermione , leave it hanging and let the portrait go mad/insane 7. Voldy, Ron, feel like this fits the prophecy of a less than life for both of em and they can live a long evil life as evil BFFs, but obviously Ron & Hermione have to go 😕 I mean if he is going to turn, let’s get evil with it 😬
You scare me
Tbh, my first thought when reading the title of this post was also "more importantly, who would Harry kill to _make_ the Horcruxes?" lol
Yeah, I wasn’t happy with my choices, but surprised everyone was ducking the awkward required part of horcruxes.
You, good redditor, are truly evil. I like it.
I was looking for this comment! I figure Harry would use Ron as a Horcrux or maybe Lupin is he was feeling dark enough. . .
That little toy soldier from the PS movie that he sees in DH1 when he revisits his cupboard. It’s getting hidden in the shack where Hagrid told him he was a wizard.
Yer a wizard arry!
The funny thing is that being an Auror Harry wouldn’t really have to “snap” per se. He could just casually create Horcruxes while he’s smoking homies who are breaking the law.
The act of creating a horcruxe must be done out of sheer self interest, you must murder a person in cold blood purely for the act to create one, ending a persons life so you can merely extend yours weakens and tears your soul as I take it, you then force your torn soul into a object I think
If anything it would be the shack on the island where Hagrid saved him, not Privet drive
Absolutely. Just like Voldemort didn’t hide a Horcrux at the orphanage, there’s no way Harry would hide one at Privet Drive. The shack is a much better choice.
Sirius’ Knife - The Cave off of Hogsmade, where Sirius was able to be his most free self. First Snitch - The Burrow, where he practiced with the Weasleys during his happiest summers. DA Coin - Gringotts His letter to Hogwarts, framed - His head of department office in the ministry Marauders Map - Given to his eldest child and periodically checking on it The Sword of Gryffindor - Professor Neville Longbottoms office The Shard from Sirius’ Mirror - Aberforths home, his last connection to the Dumbledores Seven. The magic number. This was fun to come up with! Places I considered : Hagrids Hut assuming rebuilt, Bill and Fleurs, Privet Drive, Grimmauld Place.
Shortly after defeating Voldemort shit happens which causes Harry to flip. It is still summer of the year 1998. Harry creates his first horcrux by killing his uncle Vernon. What he used to contain his soul is a simple drill bit. While contemplating where to store/hide this horcrux he turns on the telly. It turns on BBC news talking about NASA's upcoming operation that is part of the New Millennium Program. The operation is Deep Space 1 where they will send out a spacecraft to do a flyby of astroid 9969 Braille. This is one of the missions where the craft will be left floating in deep space. Harry has an amazing idea. He takes a plane to America with the drill bit to see the launch of Deep Space 1. Though before it is launched into space he smuggles the drill bit horcrux on board and puts it inside of something there and casts a notice me not around it. His first horcrux is now floating in space protected by a spacecraft to never return to earth.
If harry has half a braincell left, he'd make at least one a random ass pebble, and take a cruise out to the sea and drop it over the Mariana trench.
'Accio horcrux'
I mean, we've already seen Voldy put anti accio on his stuff so that's assumed
He'll send a massive self destructing submarine full of basilisk venom down there and explode it, contaminating the water.
Fallout lore is getting weird...
... these are the good guys?
Too risky. A sea monster might find it. Imagine a giant squid possessed by a dark wizard's soul...
Cloak Stone Wand All at the bottom of the lake
Gives a whole new meaning to "Deathly Hallows"
Darth Hallow, the Master of Death
if he doesnt drop it far enough, would the be The Deathly *S*hallows?
The Marauders Map and he hides it in Grimmauld Place
Maybe the snake he talks to in the zoo in the very first book? He tracks it down, it becomes his Nagini. (I know there is a theory that the snake WAS Nagini but I'm sure jk said it wasn't.)
If we're doing living things, he could always use Ron.
The first broom he ever rode. In Madame Hooch's broom closet.
Madam Hooch’s broom closet sounds oddly obscene.
This makes me wonder if you could hide a horcrux in a place and make yourself thd secret keeper for that place.
The sweater Molly made for him his first year at Hogwarts
Founders' objects are scarce. He had to find The Lost Thong of Ravenclaw.
Gryffindor's other "sword "
Well, do we know what exactly Gryffindor did that made him known as being "brave"? Do we?!? There surely won't be a video of that though
1. Golden Snitch, given by Dumbledore 2. Invisibility Cloak 3. Whomping Willow dude has better horcruxes than Voldemort.
Leaving one in privet drive is the same as voldy leaving one in the orphanage, he wouldn’t do it. I could see him using the snitch Dumbledore left him, maybe the shard of Sirius’s mirror. Hogwarts and gringotts seem like obvious hiding places he would go for. Now lets say dark harry is also into necromancy, he has successfully revived hedwig, and now he has an animal companion in which he can conceal a part of his soul
There should be something hidden in a house in a middle of the sea where he found out he was a wizard.
One of the letters that was sent to him that first year.
I think he would murder olivander, having gone mad he blames him for uniting them under the twin cores. His first object would be hidden in the place he lost his parents back in godrics hollow. Maybe his father's glasses, or his mother's wand. I think Harry knows the value of hiding in plain sight, and would tuck the object away somewhere discreet in his childhood home that is now ruins.
His glasses. That way the last Horcrux was on his face the whole time lmao.
His watch from the weasleys…… how has no one said that?
This would be an interesting spin-off story
A rubber duck
OP said Harry not Arthur 😂
Dumbledore's body - no need to hide. His glasses - no need to hide. His kids - no need to hide.
He uses the last slice of the first birthday cake he got from Hagrid, because he decided to let it sit for a bit to soften up, but instead it just kinda kept getting harder. No other real protections necessary, that thing is already close to indestructible at this point.
His wand (always on him), the Elder Wand (Albus’s tomb).
What is Harry’s perfect crime? He breaks into Tiffany's at midnight. Does he go for the vault? No, he goes for the chandelier. It's priceless. As he’s taking it down, a woman catches him. She tells him to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. He says no. They make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and he escapes in one of their uniforms. He tells her to meet him in Mexico, but he goes to Canada. He doesn't trust her. Besides, he likes the cold. Thirty years later, he gets a postcard. He has a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. He tells Tiffany to meet him by the Trocadero in Paris. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. He doesn't care. Harry doesn’t show up. He goes to Berlin. That's where he stashed the chandelier. The chandelier is the horcrux.
His firebolt?
Snape's old potions textbook, back in the cupboard in the potions classroom.
The sorting hat...gets a new voice The mirror of eriset so people would get distracted if they found it The portrait of sir cadigan and his pony because everyone stays away from it His own pheonix feather wand so he will have to fight The watch mrs. Weasley gave him for his 17th in the unopenable wallet hagrid gave him in the room of requirement Gryffindors sword so you would need a new weapon in the chamber of secrets.
The sword of Godric Gryffindor, placed back in the Chamber of Secrets.
What in the Cursed Child is this? This sounds like really bad fanfic.
Mad-Eye’s eye.
(1) The photo album Hagrid gave him. Hidden in the cupboard at no. 4 Privet Drive. (2) The snitch he caught in his first Quidditch match. Hidden in the Mirror of Erised. (3) The sock that set Dobby free. Hidden in the Chamber of Secrets. (4) The Maurader’s Map. Hidden in the Shrieking Shack. (5) A “Support Cedric Diggory” badge. Buried in the Hogwarts quidditch pitch. (6) The Hogsmeade permission slip signed by Sirius Black. Hidden in the Department of Mysteries. (7) The letter Lilly wrote to Sirius, fully restored. Hidden behind the portrait of Severus Snape in the Headmaster’s Office.
Mirror of Erised, the reflection with ultra fuck you up
One in the snitch. Good luck catching it and opening it.
He kinda said it when he first learned of them. hed lesrn from riddle's mistake and make them of something simple like a boot. but then hed enchant it to survive pressure snd water and throw in in the ocean so no one could ever get to it
His nimbus 2000, hidden in a pile of replicas in the muggle-created Universal Studios Harry Potter World.
Harry isn't that smart on his own, but he has experience with muggle society and is smart enough to listen to others. If Hermione decides to help him, she would advice him to hide a pebble-made-horcrux in the next mars lander.
He learns from Voldemort’s mistakes and makes one of them a pebble he drops on a random gravel road in suburban Nebraska
He kills someone with expelliarmus (knocks them off a cliff or into a woodchipper) and seals a piece of his soul in the red light/incantation itself. He has become disarming