[HPforGrownups] Finite Souls? (was Endless horcrux hunt?)

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 144733

kiricat4001 wrote:
> The number seven thing I read as an educated guess on Dumbledore's
> part. His knowledge of Riddle/Voldemort led him to believe that, as
> seven is a significant number, that logically Riddle/Vmort would
> select that as the number of horcruxes to make.  I never thought
> that meant that seven was the maximum number of horcruxes that could
> be made. Of course, I could be forgetting some bit of canon.

Miles:
No, we all know the significance of the number seven from the memory of
Slughorn. It is not only a guess on Dumbledore's part, but Tom himself had
the ide fixe of seven soul parts, six of them stored in horcruxes.
Concerning the idea of making more horcruxes - no, I don't think Voldemort
would do this. He would depart from his basic idea of seven parts. The lost
parts of his soul do not return to him, so he can never return to the
magical number of seven.
Apart from this, we see what happens to him due to separating six of seven
parts of his soul from his body. He looses his humanity, he fades. I don't
think that there is a certain number of soul pieces which can be separated,
the problem won't be a mathematical one. But we get the impression, that he
already came near the maximum of horcruxes that is possible.

Miles