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Aug. 2nd, 2005 09:29 amThought.
Tom Riddle has the ring before he asks Slughorn what a horcrux is. Ergo, Tom Riddle has already killed the Riddle family, since he took the ring from Morfin before framing him for those deaths. Ergo, supposedly, a little bit of his soul has already been rent away, which is what happens when a wizard kills. Presumably he took the ring before he went to the Riddles; he would want to show it off to them.
So...what if the first horcrux was an accident?
It would explain how Tom even discovered the concept. If killing his father produced a powerful and accidental horcrux, that simple split might not have been completely evident; he might have appeared perfectly normal until the third or fourth horcrux was made.
But immediately after the killing he would have known something was wrong, surely, and he would have gone looking for what it could possibly be. Sooner or later, the accidental horcrux would have led him to the information he sought. He was young, brilliant, and already living outside of the concept of social morality; he would have been so pleased with himself and so eager to do it again. Because I bet he got a total rush out of that moment when it happened. I bet he savoured it and doled it out to himself in those six installments like a treat. I bet he would have tried for nine if he'd lived long enough.
And I thought being in Slughorn's head was disturbing.
Tom Riddle has the ring before he asks Slughorn what a horcrux is. Ergo, Tom Riddle has already killed the Riddle family, since he took the ring from Morfin before framing him for those deaths. Ergo, supposedly, a little bit of his soul has already been rent away, which is what happens when a wizard kills. Presumably he took the ring before he went to the Riddles; he would want to show it off to them.
So...what if the first horcrux was an accident?
It would explain how Tom even discovered the concept. If killing his father produced a powerful and accidental horcrux, that simple split might not have been completely evident; he might have appeared perfectly normal until the third or fourth horcrux was made.
But immediately after the killing he would have known something was wrong, surely, and he would have gone looking for what it could possibly be. Sooner or later, the accidental horcrux would have led him to the information he sought. He was young, brilliant, and already living outside of the concept of social morality; he would have been so pleased with himself and so eager to do it again. Because I bet he got a total rush out of that moment when it happened. I bet he savoured it and doled it out to himself in those six installments like a treat. I bet he would have tried for nine if he'd lived long enough.
And I thought being in Slughorn's head was disturbing.
