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Voldemort

IcalasariIcalasari
edited 2011-07-22 21:12:03 in Media
No rainbow star
He isn't very bright about his Horcruxes, is he? If I was him, I would have done things like make a piece of gravel a horcrux and hide it in a massive gravel pit. And if at all possible, capture a phoenix and turn THAT into a horcrux (even if Harry was somehow a proper horcrux, we don't know exactly how the rebirth of a phoenix works, so it could keep the soul piece through cycles. Or it may not. Can't hurt to try). Those seem like GREAT things to turn into horcruxes!

Heck, maybe even see if it it possible to turn a random fleck of DUST in the Room of Requirement's hiding room form into a horcrux!

Also, his death eaters are incompetent. Who makes a two way Portkey when you WANT TO TRAP THE PERSON THERE!?
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  • ColorPrinterColorPrinter
    ʍɥɐʇ po ʎon ɔɐll ɐ ɾoʞǝ ʍıʇɥonʇ ɐ dnuɔɥlıuǝ
    I thought the whole point was that a horcrux was something important. If not, then yeah, I'd totally put mine in random and totally arbitrary rocks.

    Though I assume an object becoming a horcrux fills it with all kinds of magical shit, so they'd be magic rocks.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Horcruxs are magic, they resonate with magic.

    Hiding a gold bar that is filled with diamonds is easy to do when you hide it in fort knox.
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    If J.K Rowling did those things, she would have written herself into a corner. Killing Harry off halfway through the series would have pissed too many people off.
  • OutsideTheBauksiOutsideTheBauksi
    sleep is for the we[e/a]k

    This also bugged me, it's just stupid to make something you don't want to ever be found/destroyed and "hide" it like that.

    Also, what was he thinking making a snake a horcrux? It's going to die sometime and most evil wizards want to live longer than ~30 years.

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    Voldemort was obsessed with symbolism and playing up the Dark Lord image like no tomorrow. Basically the wizard equivalent of a Bond villain, making a Horcrux a grain of sand or something wouldn't be grandiose enough for him.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-07-22 21:24:17
    You can change. You can.
    The point is that Voldemort is a prideful dumbass.

    Damn it, Neo Ninja'd
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    Guys. DUH.

    The whole point is the story revealing Voldemort's flaws were his PRIDE.
  • vacasamavacasama
    Woki mit deim Popo.
    I haven't read all the books but I thought the point was to make Horcruxes out of symbols of power.  I think that makes a lot of sense for Voldemort.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    "Also, his death eaters are incompetent. Who makes a two way Portkey when you WANT TO TRAP THE PERSON THERE!?"

    I assume you're referring to the Triwizard Cup in GoF? I figured that that was so Voldemort or a Death Eater could bring Harry's body back to Hogwarts to show that he was dead and that Voldy was back, since you can't apparate onto Hogwarts grounds
  • AHRAHR
    A piece of gravel in a gravel pit is more likely to get destroyed though.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    It's supposed to be magically destroyed. Destroying by smashing it or whatever doesn't do the trick.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Neo, Juan, I get that. Still doesn't mean that it doesn't bug me

    Those saying it has to be important: Alright then, why can't one take the horcrux ring and hide it at, say, a jewellers?

    Heck, swap the Hufflepuff cup and the ring! A ring would be FAR HARDER to spot in a vault full of gold than a cup!
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Actually, if you don't mind listing off the locations of his horcruxes for me. I'm a little rusty.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    the hiding place has to be as important as the object.

    That, plus he tried to choose the place based in at least a tangential relationship with the horcrux.

    (the Ravenclaw Diadem in Hogwarts, the ring in the Gaunt's ruins, where it originally belonged, the Locket in the place that brought back memories of how he learned to speak to snakes, etc etc)

    Notice the "tangential". the relationship is sketchy at best. I suspect this is in purpose.

    Besides, it's fucking Gringotts, dude. You shouldn't be worrying about how to hide your things when you have a fucking dragon taking care of security. Harry, Ron and Hermione were just lucky that Griphook was with them.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    ^^ Ravenclaw's Diadem -> Hogwarts

    Hufflecup -> Gringotts

    The Ring -> Gaunt's house

    Slytherin Locket -> The Cave

    The diary -> ?

    Nagini -> Always with him.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-07-22 22:20:02
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    The Diary: With Lucius Malfoy
    The Ring: in the abandoned Gaunt house
    The Locket: In the magic cave
    Hufflepuff's Cup: In Bellatrix's vault at Gringotts
    Ravenclaw's Diadem: in the room of requirement with junk
    The Snake: With Voldy

    IIRC

    ninjars

    fucking ninjars everywhar
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    I assume you're referring to the Triwizard Cup in GoF? I
    figured that that was so Voldemort or a Death Eater could bring Harry's
    body back to Hogwarts to show that he was dead and that Voldy was back,
    since you can't apparate onto Hogwarts grounds

    He could have tossed Harry's body onto it. All anyone at Hogwarts would have found is a dead body.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Or that.  But it still makes sense for the cup to be a double portkey.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    This is essentially a symptom of Voldermort being a really shitty Dark Lord. 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Nah, we all know Voldemort turns into a dark force spirit and becomes Palpatine's mentor.

    It all was part of his plan.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Palpy wasn't exactly that awesome, either, even if he could shoot lightning from his hands. 
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Bad mentor, bad apprentice.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Voldemort is basically Magneto minus the things that make Magneto interesting.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Nah, Voldemort is Magneto minus the moral amibguity.

    I kinda like him for that, actually. We need more gleefully evil villains.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I see the gleefull evil in the movies. ...less so in the books.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    This is a dude who explicitly kill people for funsies. Just sayin'

    Also, I remember a few times where he has explicitly stated that if it wasn't because of his plans, he would've killed a lot more people (That kid in Halloween night comes to mind)
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Juan: ...Ok, yeah, I'll give you that. Gringotts was probably his BEST idea for a Horcrux

    Still stupid that he put them in spots that were linked to them in a way
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Like everything else he does. Because that's the book's point.

    Voldemort is a fucking idiot. 
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Hey, consider how far he got, can't be that stupid.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    The problem is that he slept on his laurels. Voldemort was smart. Genius, even, but as he grew along with dark power and lack of opposition, he became too proud and less precautious. 

    That's why he fell the first time. Both this and his lack of an ability to learn was what caused it the second time.
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