Why 4 Horcruxes left, and not 3??

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 142207

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ronnie" <remuslupin73 at h...> wrote:

> Expectopatronnie: 
> 
> So what is it that makes living unworthy - the killing (which ripps 
> the soul appart), or encasing the ripped soul-parts in a horcrux? 
> Why does this make matters worse? 
> 

bboyminn:

Overal, I don't disagree with the general points you made, but you are
overlooking one critical point in the statement above. Perhaps, I am
missing your central point, but here is my take on the harm done by
Horcruxes.

It's not that act of creating a Horcrux that harms you, it's
separating yourself from part of your soul.

You can kill a thousand times, and those thousand pieces of broken
soul are still part of you. Certianly, you have done yourself
spiritual harm, but not as badly as when you start removing pieces of
soul from yourself, which is exaclty what you do when you create a
Horcrux. Not only do you damage part of your soul in the act of
murder, but you lose part of your soul in the creation of the Horcrux,
and in losing, becoming separated from, part of your soul, you lose a
degree of your humanity. 

Also, I don't think that only the Horcruxes are protecting Voldemort.
He implies himself that he has tried many things to insure his mortal
life. I suspect that the Horcruxes are the most important and most
critical, but I suspect a great degree of his 'snake-like' appearance
is do to these other 'attempts' at immortality.

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn