How do the horcruxes work

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No: HPFGUIDX 135339

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pickle_jimmy" <mkemp at a...> 
wrote:
> This leads me to ask...
> If I create 1 horcrux, and I am AK'd, what happens?
> 
> Is it that one part of my soul has been sent to the next life, but 
> the part that is in the horcrux takes its place - leaving me alive 
> with 1/2 a soul (as I was before) but with no remaining horcrux?
> 
> In other words - me and my horcrux - I get AK's twice, I am a 
goner.
>  
> ---- OR ----
> 
> Is it - as long as there is a Horcrux, you cant kill me. The first 
AK 
> destroys the soul that is in me, and I am left soulless but alive. 
> Then you AK me over and over but I don't die because the remaining 
> part of my soul isn't in me to be AK'd.
> 
> Pickle Jimmy - now even more confused than ever.


Now me:

The AK doesn't destroy the soul that is in your body, you can't even 
die a natural death. As long as you have a horcrux somewhere out 
there, you are immortal. If the horcrux is destroyed, then the AK 
can kill you, or die of old age, whichever comes first.


*Rizza*