A Horcrux in each book and how it became one (Was: A Horcrux in each book)

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No: HPFGUIDX 144008

rose  wrote: 
"My second reaction was that we have also seen every 
character whose death was the used to make a horcrux. 

In HBP, Dumbledore tells Harry that Voldemort reserved his horcrux 
making for special victims. I have come up with some names that 
might or might not apply. The connections should be obvious except 
for #4 
1) Moaning Myrtle - diary
2) Marvolo Gaunt - ring
3) Tom Riddle Sn - Locket
4) Regulus Black - Nagini (he discovered the plot and was a "snake 
in the grass" - waiting to take Voldemort down without his seeing it)

Rose prepares for howlers:"


CH3ed:
No howler from me. :O)  I like the idea that we have seen all the 
people whose death was used to make a horcrux, but I don't think 
Myrtle's death was used to make one. She is not someone LV would 
consider significant, being a moping muggleborn (she was killed by 
the basilisk --tho considering that it happened in the bathroom that 
houses the entrance to CoS and she popped out of her stall to 
confront LV, that murder could have been something of an accident. 
Malfoy told Harry & Ron (disguised as Crabbe and Goyle) that a 
mudblood died the last time the CoS was opened. 

Also the diary was not made into a pensieve until later that year... 
after LV realized he couldn't open the CoS again without causing the 
school to close and himself sent back to the orphanage. And then LV 
didn't learn how to make a horcrux out of it until after his 6th 
year at Hogwarts (the horcrux conversation with Slug). The 6th year 
was when he murdered his father and took the Slytherin ring.

Marvolo Gaunt died before LV could find him and Morfin died in 
prison, so their deaths were not used to make a horcrux (Morfin told 
LV of Marvolo's death in the first memory Harry saw in "Sluggish 
Memory" in HBP).

Regulus' significance to LV was downplayed by Sirius, but he could 
have been wrong. I don't know.


Rose wrote:
"5) Harry - Harry
In order to make a horcrux, the person must split their soul by 
committing a murder. Perhaps the soul accompanies the spell and 
when the murdered person's soul leaves their body for the veil, the 
murderer's soul piggy backs out of the body and can then be captured 
and put into someplace else. However, Harry's soul did not leave 
his body. Therefore, the sixth part of Voldemort's soul is still in 
there and cannot get out." <snip>


CH3ed:
Well.. I'm of the opinion that the only thing that got transferred 
to Harry at GH was some of LV's magical power. 

Anyhow, I am curious about how a horcrux is made. Like does one have 
to be made right after the murder, or if the soul fragments remain 
with the murderer until he later makes a horcrux out of it (there 
would probably be a time period for how long could one wait to make 
a horcrux out of a murder, ay?). It seems plausible that Tom Riddle, 
Sr's death was used to make the ring horcrux (and what an wretched 
man Senior was... first got killed by his son, and his death made to 
create a horcrux... then still have to give up his bones for his 
murderer for use to resurrect himself!), but his murder took place 
before the horcrux conversation with Slug (LV was already wearing 
the ring in that memory). 

CH3ed :O)