Dumbledore Wrong? 7 Soul Pieces - sort of

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 145141

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "littlegreenpartyhats"
<scb1066 at a...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "another_potter_fan"
> <kevin_mcgoff at y...> wrote:
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> > Wouldn't LV have used up one of his horcruxes when the AK 
> > rebounded off Harry and hit him? Shouldn't that mean that 
> > Harry is looking for  only 5 horcruxes? 
> 
> littlegreenpartyhats:
> 
> I could be very, very wrong about this, but I was under
> the impression that a horcrux isn't used up, per se.  I 
> took the whole concept of a horcrux as meaning that, if a 
> part of your soul exists anywhere in the world, you don't 
> die when you are "killed" and you don't need to go get a 
> piece of it to be "reborn".  That's my wild speculation, 
> at least.
> 
> littlegreenpartyhats
>


bboyminn:

I think you are on the right track here. JKR has somewhat confused the
issue by referring to 7 Horcruxes, but that's not really what we have.
What we have is 7 soul pieces in the form of 6 Horcruxes and a single
embodied Core Soul.

So, we have the Core Soul and six auxiliary soul pieces. As long as
any auxiliary soul piece is earth bound, the Core Soul remains earth
bound, and that makes the Core Soul immortal. 

When the curse against baby Harry rebounded and tore Voldemort from
his body, it was the Core Soul that lived on protected by the earth
bound existance of one or more auxiliary soul pieces. It was this Core
Soul that was re-embodied in the graveyard. And most important, it is
this Core Soul that is the center of Voldemort's continued existance.
That is, it is the Core Soul that defines Voldemort as we know him; in
a vague and general sense, the Core Soul defines his personality..

The auxiliary soul pieces must be released from earth bound existance
for the Core Soul to be vulnerable to death. 

Now we really don't have a clear picture of what happens to the
Auxiliary Soul Piece, are they released to the nether world, do they
rejoin the Core, are they destroyed? We don't know, and to some extent
it doesn't matter since the key is that once released from the Horcrux
object, the auzilairy pieces are no longer 'earth bound'. 

Not sure if or how that helps, but there it is.

Steve/bboyminn