Why 4 Horcruxes left, and not 3??

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 142103

> Chrusotoxos:
> So that night, as I understand the whole business, 
> his body died along with the piece of soul inside it, but as there 
> were 6 other pieces safe Voldemort was not destroyed.

Goddlefrood the dark:

Dumbledore clearly states while explaining the horcruxes to Harry 
that the piece of soul resident in LV's body at the time of the 
Godric's Hollow incident turned to spirit and fled. This was the 
piece that we came across first in PS and hooked up with Quirrell 
after its holiday in Albania.

On this basis your initial statement is flawed.

Reference is Bloomsbury hardback edition, Chapter Twenty Three - 
Horcruxes, at page 470 where Dumbledore says:

"
 no, Harry, not seven Horcruxes; six. The seventh part of his 
soul, however maimed, resides inside his regenerated body. That was 
the part of him that lived a spectral existence for so many years 
during his exile; without that he has no self at all. That seventh 
piece of his soul will be the last that anybody wishing to kill 
Voldemort must attack – the piece that lives in his body."

> Chrusotoxos:
> > Ok, I'll stop here with this rambling, I just wanted to know if 
> someone has understood this piece of Dark magic.

Goddlefrood the light:

A little explanation on horcruxes. We have so far met only one 
Horcrux, the one resident in the diary. Based on this I conclude 
that each piece of split soul is unaware of what the other pieces 
are up to. It is clear that the diary Horcrux was initially unaware 
even of the attack at Godric's Hollow, having been placed in the 
diary in the summer of Tom Riddle's sixth year at Hogwarts when he 
wrote the diary. That the young Riddle who emerged had some 
information regarding events after being placed in the diary was 
down to the information he had gleaned from Ginny.

It is also apparent that when a piece of soul is destroyed it is not 
felt by the other pieces or even by the body in which LV is resident.

I have also determined that a Horcrux needn't be made at the same 
time as the act of evil inspiring it. This is based in the fact that 
Tom Riddle, as seen conversing with Horace Slughorn regarding 
Horcruxes, has already murdered and rent his soul asunder (a little 
biblical I know, but how often do you get the chance to use this 
lyrical language?) 

It, therefore, seems that the split piece of soul can be placed in 
an object for safe keeping some time after the tearing occurs. As 
this is the case the actual placing of the Horcrux in an object for 
safe keeping could be done at any time after the act of splitting 
and in the comfort of one's home.

This also leads me to believe that Harry is not a Horcrux because 
the act of placing the Horcrux in an object demonstrably takes place 
at a different time from the act that leads to its creation. Also 
Dumbledore would not have spared Harry the fact that he was a 
Horcrux if he (Dumbledore) suspected that Harry was one.

However, if Harry was a Horcrux I also think that he no longer is 
one because in POA when the multitudinous Dementors are swarming 
around he, Sirius and Hermione it is quite likely that the Dementor 
who kissed Harry successfully removed the piece of LV's soul in 
Harry. This would then mean that there are indeed three Horcruxes 
left. This is thrown in as a thought, but I do not think it will 
turn out to be correct.

One other point on Horcruxes that I think is true. The first split 
equates to half a soul, the second to a quarter, the third to an 
eighth and so on. If this reasoning is right then the piece resident 
in the simalacrum of LV will equate to only one sixty fourth of LV's 
original soul and will actually be easier to destroy.

The pieces destroyed in the diary and ring I believe to amount to no 
less than three quarters of LV's soul, meaning he quite literally 
has one foot and two arms in the grave.

To conclude I predict that there are indeed four Horcruxes left and 
that the first will be in the heavy locket that would not open 
mentioned as being in Number Twelve Grimmaud Place whose current 
whereabouts are subject of some speculation. The second will be 
Helga Hufflepuff's cup, that I believe Zacharias Smith will have a 
hand in unearthing. The third will be an item found at Godric's 
Hollow and the fourth will be Nagini.

The mystery left at the end will be whether or not there is an 
additional unlocated Horcrux with the capacity to revive as LV once 
more.

Oh, and R.A.B. will turn out to be Mrs. Black, Sirius's dear mother, 
but that will be the subject of another post.

Goddlefrood