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587: Another Dangerous Year Gone (Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 17)

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

The Sorcerer's Stone is a precursor to Horcruxes, right? These are both ways for Voldemort to be able to live forever. In fact, JK Rowling on WizardingWorld.com mentions that Quirrell is in effect turned into a temporary Horcrux by Voldemort in this book. We don't know it, of course, because Horcruxes is not even something we've heard of. But that's what's happening here. It actually makes perfect sense. If a view is a Horcruxes essentially just a container for a piece of someone's soul that they have split off by that definition, it's actually pretty much directly explained to Harry. This really brings home that

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