Horcruxes anew

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 138446

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't Voldemort's first order of business, now that he has a body 
> (of sorts) to put them back into, be to reunite with his Horcruxes? 

This would defeat the purpose of making the horcruxes in the first
place, which is essentially a diversification strategy:  Don't put all
of your soul in one basket.  But you do raise an interesting question:
 Would LV would grow stronger by re-integrating some of his soul
pieces into his corporeal self, or is such re-integration even
possible?  Possibly there is some tradeoff between diversification and
strengthening, and LV might choose some amount of soul-splitting based
on the circumstances of the world.  Still, there's that magic number
of 7 to deal with, so I somehow doubt that this tradeoff, if it even
exists, is something that will come into play in the last book.

Ersatz Harry