New thought on Horcrux

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 139899

Donna:
> Please bare with me.  This is kinda complicated and I'm not good at
> explaining things.
> 
> We, based on DD assumptions, feel that LV divided his soul into 7 
parts. 
> What makes us think those parts are equal?
*(snip)*

Ceridwen:
My first impression was that a soul tore unevenly.  Like a piece of 
paper.  No matter how hard you try, if you don't deliberately fold 
it, or have good luck or lots of experience, you don't get even 
pieces.  You might even have pieces that shear off to points.  I got 
the impression of old, rotting curtains, in fact.

But, if it's possible to pre-determine how much soul is torn off, 
then Voldemort might have deliberately divided them into sevenths, as 
his intention was to create seven horcruxes (or, six and himself).

Still, Voldemort has possibly killed more than seven people (or, six, 
leaving that one bit of soul for himself).  Which leaves quite a few 
pieces of torn soul.  It isn't the intention to create a horcrux 
which tears the soul, but murder.

Hang on...

>From GoF, Priori Incantatem, beginning page 665, first, Wormtail's 
hand, then Cedric Diggory, then Frank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins, Lily 
Potter, finally James Potter, all emerge from the wand.  Voldemort's 
father and grandparents don't.  Neither does Moaning Myrtle, but 
then, she wasn't killed by wand.  That makes nine, not counting 
Wormtail's hand, and any more that didn't come out between James and 
the Riddles.  I was just wondering if he'd only killed six or seven.  
I'd forgotten about Bertha Jorkins and Moaning Myrtle...

So, Voldemort's soul is split into at least the nine pieces that we 
know of.  So, I doubt if he consciously sized the splits.  I *think* 
he killed at least Myrtle (with the Basilisk, in the girls' toilet) 
before understanding about horcruxes and how to make them.

Still, I got the impression that the soul tears unevenly.  Maybe the 
relative importance of the deceased has something to do with it, 
maybe it's just that souls tear unevenly.

Ceridwen.