What are the properties of a Horcrux, when it is made for some ulterior motive other than protection of a piece of soul?
We have the very good example of Tom Riddle’s Diary. It was not made with the purpose of hiding a piece of soul and thus grant immortality (like Marvolo’s ring safely hidden in the Gaunt House), but for the purpose for unleashing Slytherin’s monster again and propagate his noble mission.
The Horcrux in question, which held the soul of 16-year old Voldemort, had peculiar properties. Firstly, the soul could have a physical form 1. if it fed on the thoughts of some other person. It could also 2. Communicate with the person (through ink and writing in the diary’s case), and had the 3. Same intellectual abilities as the maker of the Horcrux had. Tom M. Riddle had the same shrewd and charming personality in his Horcrux, through which he hoodwinked Ginny and consumed her mentally. The diary from Vauxhall Road was also well preserved for fifty years, the time in which it protected the soul of a great wizard.
A thing to be noted is that the 4. Horcrux like this was made in an unimposing object, as it had to look normal to its user whom it would later use to come back into form, slowly and steadily.
There is one more artifact, in Hogwarts itself, which satisfies all the requirements of a Horcrux like this. Dear readers, the object I am going to point out is none other than the Hogwarts Sorting Hat, which may be a Horcrux!. It easily fulfills all the requirements, co-relating it with the above points…1. The user wears it on the head. As in T M Riddle’s case, a user has to open out his mind to the hat, in the same way Ginny opens her mind to Riddle. The hat has all the access to the wearer’s innermost feelings and fears.
2. It can talk to the wearer. As in Harry’s case, the diary talked to him regarding his house. And of course, the hat annually talks to the whole school in the form of its complex songs. It also sends out messages and warnings subtly in its songs, which are long and rich.
3. The main reason it exists is because it has the intellectual abilities of the Hogwarts Four. It knows that which house would the student go to if the founders were still alive. Apart from house deciding powers, it knows what warning would a Hogwarts Founder give if he\she still walked the earth.
4. Again, it was made in a hat, so no one will really suspect to be more than a song hat or a house-decider.
So here is what I conclude of it- The Sorting Hat may be Horcrux! It has the brains of Hogwarts founders, so can’t be the part of a soul? But it seems improbable that a joint Horcrux of the Hogwarts Four could exist.
The Sorting Hat’s song itself comes as a clue…Yet how to pick the worthy ones
When they were dead and gone?
‘Twas Gryffindor who found the way,
He whipped me off his head
The founders put some brains in me
So I could choose instead!
Again, we know that the idea of the hat was that of Godric Gryffindor (He whipped it off his hat). Also, if only he has a past of his soul in the hat, we can trust it to be fair and honest since Gryffindor knew exactly what each founder wanted. So, can the Sorting Hat be Gryffindor’s Horcrux? Something to save the world in extremely troubled times?
A point which strongly supports this is that in COS, when the basilisk had cornered Harry, Fawkes flew in with the Sorting Hat. Harry wore it in desperation and Lo! The Sword of Gryffindor came out of it. Hence the hat was Harry’s weapon against Slytherin’s Monster, and Harry won. If the hat could hold Gryffindor’s sword, can’t it hold its soul? Also, in the same way it revealed the sword to a true Gryffindor in need, could one day it reveal its real powers?.
But the sly remarks of the hat that Harry would do well in Slytherin point otherwise. Also, the making of a Horcrux is pure evil, and it is more probable that a dark wizard would make a Horcrux. So, can it be that the Sorting Hat is the Horcrux of the Ancestor of Evil, Salazar Slytherin? It may be that he had a plan, executing over a millennium, to rise again. Slowly and steadily taking the thoughts of the first years that come to Hogwarts, and then suddenly re-appearing!
Also, either one of the above two (or jointly together!) made the Horcrux with no aim of regaining powers.
It can be that the Sorting Hat is only a simple object with the purpose to ensure the proper selection of young Wizards and Witches till eternity… or is it???
5 comments:
Andros!
The theory is quite good. It shows the great deal of efforts you put in making theories, unlike some others.
But like in the last stages of the theory, you yourself have commited that it was rather far-fetched.
The point you want to prove that one of the great Hogwarts 4 is still among us is rather fanfiction type.
If one of them is still surviving, it would not be possible.
fellow sorcerer
YOUR THORY SHOWS THAT U ARE VERY OBSERVENT . BUT AT THE SAME TIME HAVE A LOOK AT OTHER SIDE OF COIN
WOULD NOT HAVE ALBUS KNOWN TILL
NOW THAT THE HAT IS A HOCRUX. IF HE WOULD HAVE KNOWN WOULD NOT HE HAVE DESTROYED THE HAT OR KEEP IT SAFE AS A RELIC. THOUGH, YOUR KEEN SENSE OF THEORIES HAVE LEFT ME SPELLBOUNDED. EXCELLENT WORK
Fellow Sorcerer Bowman,
Yourc compliments are vey encouraging, and you have Andros the Invincible's gratitude.
You say that Albus would have destroyed the hat or kept it safe as a relic...
Do you recall where the hat is kept?? Yes, it is placed in Albus Dumbledore's own office, where he lives.
Firstly the office is password protected, but can be easily breached. But when someone enters the room with the intention to steal\destroy the hat, whom will he have to encounter? The great Albus Dumbledore himself.
Also, Dumbledore's room may be guarded by many spell which make it a vary good place to hide such a relic. Also, in his absence, Fawkes who can apparate from Hogwarts will at once inform Dumbledore who will then kick the intruder very hard.
My friend Glanmore!!
I think that you ought to remove that hat from your head as it is making you too drowsy to read the whole theory.
My main point was that it had free access to all the thoughts of the person as he opens his mind to it.
I for one know that no student in Hogwarts goes around opening their minds to or sticking his head in the paintings, so try not to be too smart next time (as the effort will again go in vain)!
o eat shet you idiot
Post a Comment