Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?…

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I’m way late to this batch of comments, but I have one quick thought to add on horcrux hiding places.

I remember reading somewhere that JK Rowling gave instructions to the movie set designers about gravestones or a graveyard. I don’t remember wher I read it – but it was something like, the set designers wanted to put some gravestones, or a whole graveyard, on the grounds of Hogwarts for “atmosphere,” but Rowling said no, you can’t do that, because there IS a graveyard – or gravestones – at Hogwarts, but not there, the graves are somewhere else. That bit of trivia popped to mind when everyone started speculating on a Horcrux being hidden at Hogwarts.

Then, Dumbledore did say during the quest for the locket that LV fears death more than anything, and that’s why he protected his items with “deathly” things – e.g., using inferi to guard the locket.

Put the two things together, and I can’t help wondering if the graveyard/graves Rowling alluded to will turn up in Book 7 either as the hiding place for the Hogwarts horcrux, or maybe as a red herring hiding place. Of course, there’s been no mention of graves or graveyards yet, despite all the descriptions of the Hogwarts grounds….but maybe there’s some sort of burial site off in the forest somewhere, or down near Hogsmede, or a crypt under the castle. Dumbledore was buried at Hogwarts – was he the only one? Where are the Hogwarts founders buried Hiding a Horcrux in a tomb/crypt/grave/mausuleum of a founder, or another important person, would seem to “fit” pretty well, no?

Just some food for speculation.

Greg (in T.): We definitely don’t lack in pop cultural information- I have always said that my brain retains every single stupid pop culture reference EVER. Greg has watched the UK office, I haven’t seen any episodes yet. He enjoyed it.

Interesting thought on Voldemort hiding the horcrux in the RoR- remember in HBP when Harry needed a place to hide the prince’s potion book? There were objects that had been hidden by countless other people (from all of the years at Hogwarts probably) there already. Very interesting theory and definitely a possibility!

As far as the fidelius charm goes- assuming someone could use it on themselves, I don’t know why Voldemort wouldn’t have done it. It is a brilliant idea! But, this doesn’t preclude Harry from finding the horcruxes though. He is still able to research and come to his own conclusions as to what the horcruxes are- and then destroy them. So, yes, if voldemort did perfrom the fidelius charm on himself then no one else would be able to tell Harry the exact locations of the horcruxes (or what they are I guess), but chances are no one was going to do that anyway. Does that make sense?

As far as hogwarts goes, I don’t think more than one horcrux will be there. We saw what great lengths voldemort went to hide the locket- if it was in his power, he will not make it easy to find the other horcruxes.

Tim- I don’t think the mirror of erised could be used to find the horcruxes. If you think about it like this, the mirror shows the user only their deepest and greatest desires. Harry’s greatest desire is not to find the horcruxes- it might be to kill voldemort and the way to do that will be to find the horcruxes but that is just a means to the end. It is a good thought though- I do wonder what role the mirror will play in book 7.

I do agree with you that at least some of book 7 needs to be at hogwarts. I think Harry will be spending more time there than he thinks.

I also had another thought as I was thinking about all this: why didn’t Voldemort think to use a Fidelius Charm on himself to conceal the location of his horcruxes?? That seems to me to be a fool-proof method of concealing his scret. Then I thought back to Flitwick’s explanation of how the charm worked: “an immensely complex speel… involving the magical concealment of a secret inside a single, living soul…”. The fact of the matter is that Voldemort’s soul was so twisted and mangled and un-natural that the charm would probably not work. Plus, I cannot believe that Voldemort would ever trust anyone else with this specific secret, as according to Dumbledore, “Voldemort operates alone…” What do you all think??

Oh and by the way, for those of you who haven’t registered at the forum, Go Now. Were having some great discussions in there as well as games, and even discussions about non-Harry Potter things. It’s hpprogs.es.mw

Congratulations Penny and Greg for the great movement you’ve being having lately in this blog!! You’re getting pretty popular lately!!!

Tim- I agree with you 100%.

I was listening to your podcast where you rated the books and I have to agree with Penny that Book 6 was my favourite as well. The book definitely represented a return to literary discipline for Rowling, both in her plotting and characterization- and it just has some beautifully written passages- of note for myself was the meeting between Dumbledore and Voldemort when he came back to request a job from Dumbledore (the power struggle there was well depicted) and the opening chapter featuring the muggle British Prime Minister was priceless.

I hail from Toronto, Canada and we get the UK versions here. I have always been a bit jealous of the U.S. editions because of the chapter pictures and some of the covers. I was wondering what everyone thought of the U.K. edition covers- I admire Mary Grandpre’s “soft-geometry” approach to her illustrations, but I also think our versions bring an added touch of realism… in fact, for the first time ever I felt that the UK version cover of Half-Blood Prince (where Harry and Dumbledore are encircled in magical flame) beat out the U.S. version. What do you all think??

Take care and thanks for a great podcast,

Greg

Thats what happens when I try to post around the kids (LOL).

As for the wand, I agree with Tim that it may be Voldemorts, however there is always the single wand that was on display in Olivander’s window (SS/PS).

Poe- Welcome also (this has been a great few days for newcomers)! I don’t know. How tragic would that be?!?

It also is usually only done when the two characters are going to end up together. There would be no emotional storyline in Spiderman 2 if Parker doesn’t leave Mary Jane at the cemetery in Spiderman 1. As I write this I realize I have to reconsider my theory that Harry is going to die… Which means that perhaps both Ron and Hermione have to die. Or maybe… Rowling will go dive headfirst into Harry as the ultimate in tragic heroes and have Ginny die because Harry had previously pushed her away. I think I like that. Oh yeah, new here, really enjoy the podcast.