Three instead of four horcruxes left.

[Rebecca]

No: HPFGUIDX 156736

Rebecca <bectay@> wrote:
> > > When Voldemort tried to kill Harry and the curse rebounded back
> > > on him, didn't one of the 6 horcruxes have to be used to keep
> > > him alive?

Tonks:
> > As to LV only having 5 horcruxes left, I disagree.  I think the
> > purpose of a horcrux is to bind your soul, all of it, to the
> > earth. When LV lost his body, his soul part that was still in
> > that body did not leave the earth. It did not go beyond.  So he
> > did not lose anything.

Joe:
> There is that nagging bit of information from the end of one of the
> novels <snip> where DD tells HP that LV transferred a bit of
> himself to Harry and that is why he is a parselmouth.... That
> makes me think again that the "bit" of LV that was passed onto HP
> is a bit of his soul. I know that whether HP's scar is a horcrux
> has been discussed ad nauseum, but as long as we are discussing
> what happed to LV when he tried to AK HP....


Rebecca:
If a horcrux binds the soul to earth, why does LV need 6?  Wouldn't
one be sufficient?  Wouldn't the same horcrux continue to bind his
soul to earth every time he "dies"?  Or, was he worried that it
(they) would be destroyed?

As far as HP's scar being a horcrux, my initial thought was "no
way", but I'm not ruling that out.  I agree that it has already been
discussed to death, so we will just end the horcrux discussion here.