Has Voldy "used" a Horcrux?

[melhersheybar]

No: HPFGUIDX 133522

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grindieloe" <andie1 at e...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melhersheybar" 
> <mhersheybar at h...> wrote:
>   Do you think 
> > it is possible that VD has already "used" one of his Horcruxes? 

and then grindie answered:
> 
> I somehow don't think that it works that way.  When the AK curse 
> backfired on Voldie, his body was destroyed, but not the piece of 
his 
> soul that was left... that is why he "survived."

This is Mhersheybar again -

I guess what I don't understand then is why a Horcrux is needed to 
make you immortal.  If the piece of LV's soul that was in him at the 
time he tried to kill Harry still survived, even if LV's body was 
gone, then it wouldn't matter if there were other pieces of it stowed 
in various places.  I read the Horcrux explanation to mean that you 
were protected because if one piece of your soul (and, as it happened, 
your body) were destroyed, the other pieces outside your body were 
there to keep you alive untill you could figure out a way to fully 
restore yourself.

The Horcruxes to me are like having bank accounts in different 
countries - if the money you keep on yourself gets used up, go to 
another bank and make a withdrawl.  When the killing curse backfired, 
it should have "killed" that piece of LV's soul, leading him to need 
to go get one of his Horcruxes to replenish himself.  

Mhershey