I would comment, but I'm still trying to recover from the wine I inhaled at "the Bird Bath of Death" stage, so anything more intelligent will have to wait.
Look, you don't suppose this could be a honking great CLUE could you? All the horcruces (and how I do hate fantasies that degenerate into "Collect the complete set of Artefacts of Doom and trade them in for guaranteed world domination!" It was one of the things that put me off The Dark Is Rising - plus, the poem in that wasnm't actually much better objectively than the one about Odo, and we were supposed to take the Susan Cooper one seriously) are in fact concealed in or around naff garden ornaments and furniture! The Garden Gnome of Gnostic Gnastiness, the Heron of Hellish Horribilitude, the Vomiting Concrete Otters (this was a real garden ornament I met in Peterhead, Scotland. I wanted to steal it and use it for the sign for a pub named after it)...
A nasty thought, but then we are talking about a Dark Wizard whose maternal ancestors were sorely in need of a visit from the Extreme Makeover team, so natural taste is clearly not carried on his genes.
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Look, you don't suppose this could be a honking great CLUE could you? All the horcruces (and how I do hate fantasies that degenerate into "Collect the complete set of Artefacts of Doom and trade them in for guaranteed world domination!" It was one of the things that put me off The Dark Is Rising - plus, the poem in that wasnm't actually much better objectively than the one about Odo, and we were supposed to take the Susan Cooper one seriously) are in fact concealed in or around naff garden ornaments and furniture! The Garden Gnome of Gnostic Gnastiness, the Heron of Hellish Horribilitude, the Vomiting Concrete Otters (this was a real garden ornament I met in Peterhead, Scotland. I wanted to steal it and use it for the sign for a pub named after it)...
A nasty thought, but then we are talking about a Dark Wizard whose maternal ancestors were sorely in need of a visit from the Extreme Makeover team, so natural taste is clearly not carried on his genes.