Why 4 Horcruxes left, and not 3??

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 142093

chrusotoxos wrote:
>
> Hi everybody...there's something bothering me about this story of 
> Horcruxes.

zgirnius:
Hi! I'll see if my take makes any sense to you. I also recommend 
bboyminn's response for a lot of this, I agree with his take on how 
Horcruxes work. 

> chrusotoxos wrote:
> Looks like it. A killing curse, therefore, 
> has no effect upon a split soul, but only on a whole soul. But if 
this 
> is right, why don't all the bad guys make one? Or even important 
good 
> ones, without whom the war cannot be won?

zgirnius:
The good guys don't make one because they are not willing to murder 
anyone. This is a necessary step. If they were willing to take this 
step, they would IMO not be good guys...

I would guess that more bad guys don't make them because:
1) The very existence of Horcruxes, what they are, and the details of 
how they are made, is a deep dark secret. We do not know how Riddle 
learned to make them. It is even possible that, once he learned from 
SLughorn what one is, he figured out how to make it on his 
own...which would definitely be above and beyond what most wizards 
could do.
2) Even if it can be learned from the right super-rare Dark texts, 
for all we know, the spell may be very difficult indeed, perhaps only 
the post powerful Dark wizards are capable of it.
3) There is the issue of how to get a new body. (Voldemort has 
minions to help him out with this).
4) Voldemort's existence between his first 'death' and restoration 
seems to have been pretty darn miserable to me. It may not appeal to 
all.