I'm pretty sure it was mentioned in the movie as well. Either way, though, there IS an explanation for how the Sword of Gryffindor can destroy Horcruxes. It absorbed basilisk venom, and it was explicitly noted that the sword only takes in that which makes it stronger. Even if the sword didn't ideally hit the "right" place on the basilisk, well, that's still the explanation we're given. The entry itself even says that it "is probably what happened".
I'm in favour of removing the entry.
(Edit: Nevermind. I see it was already pulled.)
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I'm pulling this from the YMMV topic and putting it up for discussion.
- The entire Horcrux quest. Not only do they never leave Britannia and spend 90% of the quest in a tent, snapping at each other because of a Horcrux (very intelligent J.K.R.), but the gorram Horcruxes are barely protected, at least compared to the first two (Gringotts silliness apart). What, Voldemort found himself out of budget for the last pieces of his soul? It was too much trouble to put at least some defense in them? What should have come as an Indiana Jones/Conan the Barbarian-style quest of epic proportion instead came as a weekend with bernie with wands.
Any way we can rewrite this to be a little less, er, vicious while still getting the point across?
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well few people knew about Horcuxes. So maybe Vodly didn't think he needed a lot of protection. But there was protection with the 6th book one. It took Vodly a long time to learn about Horcues about as long as it took him to find the Secret Chamber that he was heir too.
I agree with you. I thought the locket being hidden in an obscure cave that Voldemort had visited in his childhood, protected by the door which needs blood, and the invisible boat, not to mention the Inferi was quite an elaboarate setup. Compared to that, the diadem seems almost like an afterthought. Is there some way we could phrase this as an argument?
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I dunno, I think it rather fits voldemort. He was feeling pretty damn secure by the time some of them were hidden, so he could have easily gotten a bit careless.
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Pulling this from YMMV and opening it for discussion.
I don't know about the movie, but I do know that the book mentions that the sword was impregnated with basilisk venom. It's never mentioned that the basilisk it was used on caused it. In fact, it's mentioned to be part of Goblin-crafted, in general. I believe it was Phineas Nigellus who even joked about the sword 'needing cleaning' because Goblin-made items didn't require cleaning, implying that part of their crafting (likely with Basilik venom) is something like a dirt-repellant. Fact is that Goblin-crafted items are seen as high-tier items, but given the stance of Goblins and their crafting, it's not elaborated on.
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