One has to wonder about the “masters” of the Horcruxes Are the two Tom Riddles masters of their individual Horcruxes, or are they joint masters to both? In HPMOR, time turners are locked to a single individual. Then can Voldemort use Harry’s time turner? My guess will be “no” for literary reasons.
Voldemort mastered the resurrection stone by defeating death. For Harry to master it, he would have to defeat death, either through Patronus or by dying and getting resurrected.
Harry has already mastered another Deathly Hallow, and there’s no reason to believe that the requirements for different Hallows are different based on what we’ve seen.
You could ask the same question of the Hogwarts letter.
The simplest explanation seems to be that the Marauders’ Map is keying off of something different than the other person-specific magic we know about. Perhaps the Ministry’s running something like a magical Social Security database that associates names with bodies at birth, and the Map (and, by extension, the Hogwarts security system) is taking MD5 hashes of people’s souls and associating them with names on admission.
Which raises the interesting question of whether Harry counts as a professor where the wards are concerned.
Well, that’s a collision attack; I don’t think we’ve seen a way to create an arbitrary pair of souls, and if we had it’d probably be obvious on their admission. Though I’d read the story of someone breaking preimage resistance on the Hogwarts wards and using that to, say, get a toad credentialed as the Muggle Studies professor. It’d probably do a better job...
One has to wonder about the “masters” of the Horcruxes Are the two Tom Riddles masters of their individual Horcruxes, or are they joint masters to both? In HPMOR, time turners are locked to a single individual. Then can Voldemort use Harry’s time turner? My guess will be “no” for literary reasons.
Voldemort mastered the resurrection stone by defeating death. For Harry to master it, he would have to defeat death, either through Patronus or by dying and getting resurrected.
Harry has already mastered another Deathly Hallow, and there’s no reason to believe that the requirements for different Hallows are different based on what we’ve seen.
Indeed. And how did the Ministry even key the time-turner to Harry? He wasn’t physically present and “magic” seems to think his name is Tom Riddle.
You could ask the same question of the Hogwarts letter.
The simplest explanation seems to be that the Marauders’ Map is keying off of something different than the other person-specific magic we know about. Perhaps the Ministry’s running something like a magical Social Security database that associates names with bodies at birth, and the Map (and, by extension, the Hogwarts security system) is taking MD5 hashes of people’s souls and associating them with names on admission.
Which raises the interesting question of whether Harry counts as a professor where the wards are concerned.
And given that MD5 is broken that could lead to interesting consequences… :-D
Well, that’s a collision attack; I don’t think we’ve seen a way to create an arbitrary pair of souls, and if we had it’d probably be obvious on their admission. Though I’d read the story of someone breaking preimage resistance on the Hogwarts wards and using that to, say, get a toad credentialed as the Muggle Studies professor. It’d probably do a better job...
...actually, I kind of want to write that now.