thetruemastermind
July 24th, 2007, 23:29
here's a question that i have not quite been able to figure out by myself, so hopefully you all can help me... :)
Harry had become a 7th horcrux to voldemort, without either of their knowledge when voldemort tried killing him as a baby.... and, in order to defeat voldemort, all of his horcruxes had to be destroyed with him.
but, as Harry and dumbledore and the rest of the gang found out, their are only a few ways of destroying a horcrux properly, and a killing curse was never mentioned as one of them.
how come then, voldemort was able to destroy his own horcrux in harry (that he did not even know existed) by hitting it with a killing curse???
was it because the curse was extended from the elder wand? but even still that doesnt seem logical because it was still voldemort issuing the spell and not the wands rightful inherited owner, harry...
anyways, if a simply killing curse could destroy a horcrux in a living being.... why did neville have to randomly pull the sword of gryffindor out of the sorting hat to kill Nagini... he could have just used a killing curse and spared us the dramatics and the mystery of how the sword got their when it was supposed to be with the goblin in the first place...
Harry had become a 7th horcrux to voldemort, without either of their knowledge when voldemort tried killing him as a baby.... and, in order to defeat voldemort, all of his horcruxes had to be destroyed with him.
but, as Harry and dumbledore and the rest of the gang found out, their are only a few ways of destroying a horcrux properly, and a killing curse was never mentioned as one of them.
how come then, voldemort was able to destroy his own horcrux in harry (that he did not even know existed) by hitting it with a killing curse???
was it because the curse was extended from the elder wand? but even still that doesnt seem logical because it was still voldemort issuing the spell and not the wands rightful inherited owner, harry...
anyways, if a simply killing curse could destroy a horcrux in a living being.... why did neville have to randomly pull the sword of gryffindor out of the sorting hat to kill Nagini... he could have just used a killing curse and spared us the dramatics and the mystery of how the sword got their when it was supposed to be with the goblin in the first place...