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Neville's Killing of Nagini, Was the horcrux destroyed because the sword had basilisk venom? |
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 Aug 6 2008, 06:08 PM
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QUOTE(the_boy_who_lived @ Aug 6 2008, 12:33 PM)  I was wondering if it mattered what Neville used to slay Nagini. Did it have to be Gryffindor's sword imbued with basilisk venom, or could he have done anything to kill Nagini?
I personally don't think the weapon of choice mattered at all. When you destroy a Horcrux, you are just inflicting irrepairable damage to the vessel. The reason why you have to be so particular about destroying an inanimate object is that inanimate objects (in the magical world) can be repaired once broken - in a sense, there's no way to "kill" them because they have no life to take away (for instance, an AK wouldn't work to destory the Ring, but it destroyed the Horcrux in Harry because he "died"). That's what makes an inanimate Horcrux so difficult to destroy properly - in order to "kill" such an object, you have to do some serious damage to it.
Living things, on the other hand, can be killed in a wide variety of ways, and death obviously constitutes irrepairable damage. So, if a living thing has been made into a Horcrux, as long as you actually kill that living thing, the means that you use to accomplish it are irrelevant.
This post has been edited by harrypottergeek2: Aug 6 2008, 06:10 PM
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Aug 7 2008, 02:59 AM
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I agree with harrypottergeek2, I think that as long as Nagini was killed, the horcrux would be destroyed. I personally don't think there was magical preotection surrounding Nagini, as otherwise Voldemort would've had no need to encase her when he thought she was in danger. He would probably assume that being so close to him, she wouldn't require as much protection. I think that he got a bit ahead of himself though. He thinks he's killed Harry, so he removes Nagini's cage, even though there are enough of Harry's supporters left for someone to think of killing the snake...
I think I went off on a bit of a tangent there, and I'm not sure it makes sense, so to sum thinkgs up, I don't think that it mattered what Neville killed Nagini with, as long as she was dead.
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Aug 19 2008, 11:09 AM
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i also think that the fact that nagini is not a regular horcrux, she is in fact, a living thing, should be taken into consideration. She was still an animal, and therefore much more fragile then say the cup.
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