HARRY POTTER: IS JK ABOUT TO KILL HIM OFF?

Well, unless she's got an RAB that she hasn't talked about yet, Sirius brother is the top candidate. Kreacher could have gone with him. The locket was in the curio case they were cleaning out. Kreacher was stealing stuff that day, and later, when Hermione took Kreacher his Christmas gift, Harry noticed something glittering, and several other things Kreacher had taken that day.

RAB would have sworn him to secrecy, and he would know how valuable the locket would be.

Someone else could have gone with him, but IIRC, the boat measured the number of wizards in the boat, and would only carry one. Harry didn't count because he was underage. Kreacher wouldn't count, either.

As to Dumbledore being smart, well, I'm not sure. He was very intelligent, but Voldemort was really his creation. He saw the cruelty of Tom Riddle, but warned no one at Hogwarts about it. He suspected Riddle in the death of Myrtle, but still told no one. He allowed Riddle to get Hagrid expelled.

He never told Harry that he thought Voldemort was trying to plant thoughts in his head, which led Harry to go to the Hall of Prophecy, causing Sirius' death. He didn't tell Harry about the prophecy until too late. He never told Harry that Snape was the one who heard the prophecy.

Dumbledore made a lot of mistakes, many because he thought he was so much smarter than everyone else that he didn't need their counsel or advice.

I can't think of anyone else whose eyes even have gotten any specific mention, other than maybe Luna Lovegood. I do wonder a bit about the "experiment" that killed her mother, I admit. But what is driving me crazy is the mention of the Peverell crest on Morfin's/Marvolo's ring. How do you get from Slytherin to Peverell to Gaunt? The other point that bothers me a bit is when Dumbledore refers to Gryffindor's sword as the only relic of Gryffindor. According to the Sorting Hat, it too belonged to Gryffindor, so wouldn't that make it a second relic?

I think I want to re-read the Frank Bryce murder section in the beginning of OOP. I wonder if there may be some clues in there, particularly concerning the creation of the last horcrux. I haven't re-read OOP much because it was my least favorite book.

Nature's god created the universe, the rules which govern it, and does not intervene in our affairs. As I do not believe in revelation without scientific evidence to support it, I'm content to let natural law determine what happens in any afterlife. My focus is on this life. .

Do you have scientific evidence that nature has a god?

"Actually, his hand was injured while recovering the one horcrux that was the Slythern Ring that Voldermort had made into one, hiding it in his grandfather's cabin in the woods. (Just read that part last night and it stuck in my head ;) )"

Yes, but it was sort of a dramatic injury, and how EXACTLY he got it is still not known. If all that had happened was some injuries while doing some deed, he could have gotten a few scrapes and torn clothing, singed beard, that kind of thing. But we get, instead, a blackened hand - pretty big stuff. And no real explaination as to why his hand is blackened. Sure, we get the idea that he put on a ring and then we can sort of guess that his hand shrivvled up and went black.

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