Horcruxes - perhaps one less to hunt

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 146161

> Orna wrote:
So, if he wanted to use the first killing to complete his 7 
horcruxes, it should have been Bertha, and not this muggle, who just 
happened to be around.
Another thought - since Voldemort knew he was now planning to get 
Harry again, wouldn't he rather wait for making his final horcrux 
on  this occasion, in which case there is probably one less horcrux 
to find?

Goddlefrood says:

Bertha was of no signifance to LV, thus it would seem unlikely in 
light of what we have been told (that is that LV saved making 
Horcruxes for significant murders) that he would use her murder to 
create a Horcrux. Also there would be a possibility that Wormtail 
would have found out what was going on and IMHO LV does not trust 
Wormtail.

Upon killing Frank Bryce, and assuming that LV did create a Horcurx 
with his killing as Dumbledore suggests, Tom would have severed all 
links with the Muggle world of his youth and eliminated the last 
potential witness to his murder of his grandparents and father. This 
would be significant to LV as far as I am concerned.

On the matter of waiting to create a Horcrux from Harry's murder it 
would be most unlikely because LV would want to be fully protected 
before facing a person whom he believes (based on the portion of the 
prophecy known to LV) to have the power to defeat him. His 
discussion with Slughorn that we have been shown strongly suggests 
that LV would want to make six Horcruxes and leave one portion of 
soul in his body, making seven soul fragments in all (his supposedly 
favourite magic number).

The problem with the Horcruxes is that LV would not appear to be a 
person who would stop at only six created Horcruxes. It would be 
interesting to speculate, as I do, whether he actually made far more.

This last I have concluded will be the mystery left at the end 
referred to by JKR.

Goddlefrood