Of Souls and Death

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 148800

      -Pamela:
  Destroying one would not destroy the other as
  they do not share a soul.  Harry, therefor, could not have been made 
  a horcrux by Voldemort the night he 'died'.

  Bill:
  I'm new here myself, but I just want to comment that I've come to the opposite conclusion: I believe that Harry will find that he is the "something from Gryffindor" horcrux. 
   
  Catherine adds:
   
  The real question is how exactly is a Horcrux made? Let's take for example the FC "an immensly complex charm..." that we read in canon, it seems to me that hiding a secret in a living being is pretty hard work. So how can a Horcrux be made by mistake? If to hide a secret inside of somebody takes skill, then it seems pretty likely to me, that encompassing a part of your soul takes a bit of skill and power as well. If a Horcrux could be created accidentally, then there must be a whole bunch of other Horcrux around of all the DE who have commited murder. 
   
  It doesn't really make sense that either Harry or the hat could be a horcrux. When did Riddle have a chance to make the Hat a Horcrux? He would have had to kill DD to rip his soul apart to then be able to encompass it inside the hat. He was in the process of killing Harry to possibly make a Horcrux out of that bit of soul, but he didn't finish the job, did he? His soul couldn't have been torn apart at that time.
   
  He had however killed 2 people, just previous to Harry. Was he saving his Horcrux making for after Harry was killed? Or could he have made a Horcrux after Lily or James was killed? When exactly does one start the Horcrux creating spell? It seems again unlikely that it could be started before you AK someone, because then the caster of the horcrux-creating spell would be unable to guard him/herself while casting the spell. Also the soul is not torn apart *prior* to the AK, only after. 
   
  My thoughts are that he took something of Lily and James (maybe they had an old school relic or something in the house) to make a Horcrux. There might be something at GH.
   
  Catherine