Is there a limit on the number of Horcruxes a person can make?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 162229

> Ken says:
> But he may not yet have made the last one.  Surely his repeated 
> attempts to kill Harry and, more importantly, his instructions to his 
> Death Eaters that they DO NOT kill Harry would imply (not to put it
> any stronger than that) that he is reserving his last horcrux for
> Harry's murder.

Jen:  Voldemort would think making a Horcrux after Harry's murder was 
supremely powerful, it fits the rest of his obsessive thought patterns 
like deeming seven Horcruxes to be the most powerful or insisting on 
Harry's blood for his rebirthing.   

OTOH, his choice of containers seems as important as the victim and in 
some cases it is *more* important, i.e. Hepzibah Smith.  Voldemort 
would view the murder of Frank Bryce as significant because it marked 
his second ascent to power, but I think the use of Nagini was the most 
important aspect of that murder.  He made a practical decision to use 
her since no Founder's object was readily available and for sentimental 
reasons (using that phrase loosely).  Not to mention the long years in 
a vapor state and the fact that Harry got away again in the graveyard 
may have hastened the making of a sixth Horcrux.

The reason I favor Nagini at this point is mostly curiousity, how Harry 
will use Parseltongue and other means at his disposal to make sure 
Nagini is destroyed--she is like Voldemort's second skin.  She would 
likely be the last Horcrux left before vanquishing Voldemort because 
she's the most difficult to get to in some ways as both an animate and 
connected with LV.  Unlike the other Horcruxes, he'll know if someone 
is messing with Nagini!


Jen