Why 4 Horcruxes left, and not 3??

[chrusotoxos]

No: HPFGUIDX 142099

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:
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> 
> > Christina:
> <snip> 
> > For simplicity's sake, let's just
> > say that the only murders Voldemort commits are used for
> > horcrux-making.  That means his first horcrux would have 1/2 of his
> > original soul in it, and Voldemort would retain 1/2 of his original
> > soul.  For the second horcrux, Voldemort would split the amount of
> > soul he currently has in two again, meaning that his second horcrux
> > would have 1/4 of the *original* soul and Voldemort would have 1/4 
> of
> > his *original* soul.  


Ok, let's say it's your fault if math has come into this problem... :D
But if it is as you say (and I like very much) I prefer to think that 
a soul is endless; if you split something infinite in two, you'll have 
two infinite pieces. It's a math paradox, but infinite can't grow 
smaller even if it is endlessly split. I don't think, therefore, that 
the following Horcruxes will be less dangerous than the Diary. Maybe a 
piece of your soul retains all your qualities, and it's normal that it 
thinks for itself. I rather think that its power depends from the 
importance of the murder: the Diary was made with his first murder, 
the murder of his father; I think this made it very important, 
probably more so than any other murder he performed later. In this 
sense, let's hope that the next one will be less powerful.

chrusotoxos