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Horcrux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

July 18th, 2005 · 1 Comment ·

After reading Half-Blood Prince, I was wondering if the word “Horcrux” had any previous etymology, and looked it up on Wikipedia.
Only to discover that it really doesn’t… but that amazingly, less than 24 hours after the release of the new Harry Potter book, there’s a whole entry on the term on Wikipedia. Yet another very cool example of how amazing this site is.
Don’t read it, though, if you don’t want the plot spoiled! Just sayin’
Horcrux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  • 1 inkblurt » Blog Archive » Can you be your own horcrux? // Nov 25, 2005 at 12:25 pm

    […] I ran across a new article in Wired about Ray Kurzweil’s ideas about immortality — using technology to transform ourselves into everlasting containers of our essential being — is a sort of magic, and behaves much like the horcrux from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Maybe Arthur C Clarke was right about technology and magic? […]