Oh, okay. If I remember correctly, this was suggested by Dumbledore in canon (with some handwaving about Voldemort not noticing it, because his soul is too hurt), that’s probably why this didn’t occur to me.
I read the scene as the stratosphere idea being a precursor to the space idea, not an idea on it’s own. Although after re-reading, I’m not so sure anymore…
(Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Void/Ether.) Also, canonMort settled on six Horcruxes because he thought splitting his soul into seven pieces would have some beneficial effect (never specified, perhaps because his first ’crux was destroyed by the time he made the sixth). If the stratosphere doesn’t qualify, that leaves a Horcrux unaccounted for.
Oh, okay. If I remember correctly, this was suggested by Dumbledore in canon (with some handwaving about Voldemort not noticing it, because his soul is too hurt), that’s probably why this didn’t occur to me.
I read the scene as the stratosphere idea being a precursor to the space idea, not an idea on it’s own. Although after re-reading, I’m not so sure anymore…
(Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Void/Ether.) Also, canonMort settled on six Horcruxes because he thought splitting his soul into seven pieces would have some beneficial effect (never specified, perhaps because his first ’crux was destroyed by the time he made the sixth). If the stratosphere doesn’t qualify, that leaves a Horcrux unaccounted for.