"Do you think he would have one for Gryffindor? He can't have been too keen on that." Creepy as it was, the snake seemed to make better sense. "If you can put your soul into a bit of jewelry, I don't see why you couldn't do it with something that's actually breathing. - Except it seems sort of stupid to put it into something that can die." Of course, talking about sense and stupidity was all a little off the mark when you were dealing with someone who had gone so far round the bend that he was breaking himself into pieces on purpose.