[HPforGrownups] Re: Horcrux and Lily Stepping Aside

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 146224

lagattalucianese wrote:
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>  > zgirnius:
>  > Yes, but there is a complicating issue here. Voldemort is a mass-
>  > murderer. We are talking tens, possibly hundreds of soul pieces. Yet
>  > Voldemort is not happy with using just any one of these bits to make
>  > a Horcrux, oh no. It must the the particular soul bit created by
>  > a 'special' murder. But with all of those bits wandering about, how
>  > is he to make sure he uses the right one? Perhaps (as you speculate)
>  > he can somehow sense them and tell them all apart. But perhaps he
>  > cannot. The spell Betsy suggests Voldemort cast in preparation might
>  > have been to ensure that the NEXT soul bit created gets used in the
>  > Horcrux-making.
>  >
> La Gatta Lucianese:
> 
> Voldemort is a mass murderer indirectly; isn't the actual killing done
> by his Death Eaters et al.? He can afford to be selective about the
> murders he commits personally, so maybe his soul isn't as fragmented
> as all that.

KJ writes:
   This brings up an interesting question.  How many actual killings 
have we been told that Voldemort committed personally. This is what I 
can recall, are there any others?
1.	His father
2.	His grandfather
3.	His grandmother
4.	Hepzibah Smith
5.	Dorcas Meadows
6.	James Potter
7.	Lily Potter
8.	Frank Bryce
9.	Bertha Jorkins

Regulus Black was suggested but not proven.
Amelia Bones was suggested by the damage done but not proven. She may 
have been hidden by Dumbledore. Emmeline Vance's death might have been 
faked as well to provide Snape with some appropriate background, or she 
may actually have been killed by DE's. It was not suggested that 
Karkaroff was killed by Voldemort personally.
Myrtle was killed by the basilisk and I don't count her. She was in the 
wrong place at the wrong time. Cedric was actually killed by Wormtail
KJ