Horcruxes anew

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 138449

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ersatz Harry"
<ersatzharry at y...> 
wrote:
> 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?   
> Ersatz Harry

Now Bohcoo, laughing outloud over, "soul in one basket:"
Since two of Voldemort's Horcruxes have already been destroyed, and
he knows about at least one of the destructions (the diary), it would
seem to make sense that he would be anxious to gather at least one 
other chunk back into himself to hold it safe. A spare, so to speak, 
on board just in case death strikes a little too close to the home 
fires as it did when he AK'd baby Harry.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Voldemort kept two pieces of his 
soul inside himself in the very beginning. Maybe he thought he better 
have a spare onboard at all times, just in case; maybe he just had 
not gotten around to finding a good place to hide the 6th piece. In 
any event, I am thinking that when he AK'd Harry and the curse 
bounced back on him, it blew his body apart. One of these two 
remaining soul pieces stayed with him, allowing him an existence of 
sorts, and the other flew into Harry and left the scar. "But in 
essence divided," OOP, Dumbledore's comment, I am taking to mean that 
a piece of Voldemort's soul resides in Harry, but separate from 
Harry's soul. That would explain why Voldemort insists on killing 
Harry himself -- so he can get back that soul piece he accidently 
deposited in Harry. (Marking him as his equal...)

So, since I am assuming he kept two pieces with him in the very 
beginning, I am assuming he is most anxious to reunite with a second 
chunk now, just to be on the safe side, just to once again have a 
spare on hand. 

(Sidenote: I don't think Nagini is a Horcrux -- Voldemort himself 
said in the GOF graveyard scene that animals were ill-suited to 
possession. True, possession for functional purposes and storage for 
bits of soul are two entirely different things, but I don't see a 
snake, basilisk offspring or not, as a smart place to stash a soul 
chunk. )