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  e, but i will hazard a guess that, havg secured objects fro hufflepuff and slyther, he set out to track down objects owned by gryffdor or ravencw four objects fro the four founders would, i a sure, have exerted a powerful pull over voldeort39s iagation i can-not answer for whether he ever anad to fd anythg of ravencw39s i a nfident, however, that the only known relic of gryffdor reas safe”
  dubledore poted his bckened frs to the wall behd hi, where a ruby-encrted sword reposed with a gss case
  ”do you thk that39s why he really wanted to e back to hogwarts, sir?” said harry ”to try and fd thg fro one of the other founders?”
  ”y thoughts precisely,” said dubledore ”but unfortunately, that does not advance uch further, for he was turned away, or i believe, without the chance to search the school i a forced to ncde that he never fulfilled his abition of llectg four founders39 objects he defitely had o — he ay have found three — that is the best we can do for now”
  ”even if he got thg of ravencw39s or of gryffdor39s, that leaves a sixth horcrux,” said harry, untg on his frs ”unless he’s got both?”
  ”i don39t thk ,” said dubledore ”i thk i know what the sixth horcrux is i wonder what you will say when i nfess that i have been curio for a while about the behavior of the snake, nagi?39
  ”the snake?” said harry, startled ”you can e anials as horcruxes?”
  ”well, it is advisable to do ,” said dubledore, ”becae to nfide a part of your ul to thg that can thk and ove for itself is obvioly a very risky bess however, if y calcutions are rrect, voldeort was still at least one horcrux short of his goal of six when he entered your parents39 hoe with the ten-tion of killg you he sees to have reserved the process of akg horcruxes for particurly significant deaths you would certaly have been that he believed that killg you, he was destroyg the danr the prophecy had outled he believed he was akg hiself v-cible i a sure that he was tendg to ake his fal horcrux with your death as we know, he failed after an terval of years, however, he ed nagi to kill an old le an, and it ight then have ourred to hi to turn her to his st horcrux she underles the slyther nnection, which enhances lord voldeorts ys-tie i thk he is perhaps as fond of her as he can be of anythg he certaly likes to keep her close, and he sees to have an un-ual aount of ntrol over her, even for a parselouth”
  ”,” said harry, ”the diary39s gone, the rg39s gone the cup, the locket, and the snake are still tact, and you thk there ight be a horcrux that was once ravencw39s or gryffdor39s?”
  ”an adirably ct and aurate suary, yes,” said du-bledore, bog his head
  ”  are you still lookg for the, sir? is that where you39ve been gog when you39ve been leavg the school?”
  ”rrect,” said dubledore ”i have been lookg for a very long ti i thk  perhaps i ay be close to fdg an-other one there are hopeful signs”
  ”and if you do,” said harry ickly, ”can i e with you and help t rid of it?”
  dubledore looked at harry very tently for a ont before sayg, ”yes, i thk ”
  ”i can?” said harry, thoroughly taken aback
  ”oh yes,” said dubledore, silg slightly ”i thk you have earned that right”
  harry felt his heart lift it was very good not to hear words of caution and protection for once the headasters and head-istresses around the walls seed less ipressed by dubledore39s decision harry saw a few of the shakg their heads and pheas nils actually snorted
  ”does voldeort know when a horcrux is destroyed, sir? can he feel it?” harry asked, ignorg the portraits
  ”a very terestg estion, harry i believe not i believe that voldeort is now irsed evil, and these crucial parts of hiself have been detached for long, he does not feel as we do perhaps, at the pot of death, he ight be aware of his loss  but he was not aware, for stance, that the diary had been destroyed until he forced the truth out of ci alfoy when voldeort disvered that the diary had been utited and robbed of all its powers, i a told that his anr was terrible to be