Did we ever find out how it got burned?
2007-01-12 13:41:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It's never said in so many words, but it's clear that he sustained the injury either in obtaining or destroying the ring that Voldemort has used as a hoarcrux. The exact cause is never revealed, but at one point Dumbledore says that his reflexes aren't what they used to be. This suggests that he sustained the injury in the course of obtaining the ring, perhaps from a trap or in combat with another wizard who was defending it. It's also possible that the process of destroying the ring released a huge amount of energy which he was unable to avoid. Note that there is a similarity to Pettigrew's loss of a hand in bringing Voldemort back to life; this may be an intentional symbolic parallel, a direct plot link, or merely a coincidence. Presumably we'll learn more in book 7.
2007-01-12 13:52:04 · answer #1 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
His hand was blacken from Voldemort's ring, that Voldemort turned into a horcrux. He put it on and it was cursed.
2007-01-13 21:25:38 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy© ® ™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We never found out. Dumbledore told Harry he would tell him when the time was right, but.......it was implied that it happened while he was retrieving/hunting down one of the horcruxes.
2007-01-12 13:49:39 · answer #3 · answered by fleurpixie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was that ring that Dumbledore destroyed. I think him wearing it affected him and then he found out it was a horcrux.
2007-01-12 13:58:33 · answer #4 · answered by Alexa Wither 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
His hand was dead because he destroyed a horcrux.
2007-01-12 13:49:29 · answer #5 · answered by Gabriela Z 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋