Horcrux Killing (was Because it's dead. Re: Dumbledore's wounded hand)

[Ken Fruit]

No: HPFGUIDX 136848

Jen wrote:
... The idea of the Horcrux requiring a death to destroy it really fits with
the Voldemort profile we learned via the Pensieve memories.


Is it possible that someone else has died tampering with a horcruxes?

In OotP, Harry talking to Luna: 
"Have you" he began. "I mean, who  has anyone you known ever died?"
"Yes," said Luna simply, "my mother. She was a quite extraordinary witch, you
know, but she did like to experiment and one of her spells went rather badly
wrong one day. I was nine."

Guru