I just saw a text post… 

and it said…

if basilisk venom destroys horcruxes…

then why didn’t the horcrux inside Harry get destroyed in CoS…?

and I doN’T HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT.

Update:

(from Harry Potter wikia)



  1. rayen-of-dead-stars-and-planets reblogged this from accioallthefood
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  3. thepeteris reblogged this from irrationalwitch and added:
    … Here are two Hermione quotes from chapter 6 of Deathly Hallows....itself.” and “That’s a...
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  8. snikkio reblogged this from drappleluv and added:
    A horcrux is destroyed only if its container is damaged irreparably. Harry was healed, so the horcrux was not destroyed....
  9. accioallthefood reblogged this from bad-direwolf-in-the-black-tower and added:
    It didn’t kill him because Harry is very much alive. It takes more than a wound to kill an horcrux, you have to kill it,...
  10. miserelysia reblogged this from bad-direwolf-in-the-black-tower and added:
    Maybe ‘cause Harry didn’t die from the venom? Like he had to actually die in order for the horcrux to be destroyed?...
  11. irrationalwitch reblogged this from bad-direwolf-in-the-black-tower and added:
    um i’m pretty sure they do… “It doesn’t have to be a basilisk fang. It has to be something so destructive that the...
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  15. artaeum reblogged this from thesebrokenwingscanstillfly and added:
    harry did not die though. i suppose an object has to be completely destroyed/penetrated for the soul to be destroyed....
  16. lthikarusulu reblogged this from thesebrokenwingscanstillfly and added:
    well isn’t the horcrux a part of harry’s soul the venom was harming harry physically not soul-ly?
  17. a-starshipranger reblogged this from nevercallmenymphadora and added:
    because the horcrux was attached to hid soul, not his bloodstream
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  23. turtlesstampede reblogged this from bad-direwolf-in-the-black-tower and added:
    The thing that is storing the horcrux has to be completely destroyed in order for the horcrux to be destroyed. Harry...
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  26. danniethegoaf reblogged this from drappleluv and added:
    But the fang was in his arm. As the Horcrux was the scar on harry’s head, (not his brain) the venom would have had to...
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