[HPforGrownups] Re: In defense of Snape (from a Snape hater).

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 134165

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "npod4291" <npod4291 at y...> wrote:
> 
> First off, I think that people are misunderstanding what a Horcrux 
> is, or rather how one is created.  From what I gather, it is not 
> something that automatically happens upon murdering someone, but 
> something that must be planned.  It is a spell where murder is a 
> prerequiste, not the cause.
> 
> -Nate

Inge:
That is the way I read it, too. Your soul does not split just from 
murdering someone. If that were the case there would be a LOT of split-
souls/Horcrux'es out there.
The killing is part of what you have to do to deliberately split your 
soul and create a Horcrux.



Sherry now:

The way I read Dumbledore's explanation was that *any* time a person commits
murder it rips the soul.  He was emphatic about that.  It doesn't mean that
every time someone murders and tears their soul that a horcrux is created.
You would then have to do a spell or whatever to create the horcrux.  But
the soul is still torn by the act of murder.  I was often sleepy during the
flash backs into riddle's past, but the soul thing was so painful an idea
and yet so obvious, that murder would rip the soul, that i was utterly
engrossed.

sherry