The Evil of Voldemort; Lily's choice

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 146756


> A soul is split when murder is committed, at least that's what I 
got 
> from what Slughorn said.  Not just when a horcrux is the intended 
> result.  Though I could be reading you wrong and you mean seven 
pieces being removed.
> 
> Ceridwen.
>
My point was that there may be the possibility that a wizard who 
wants to seperate a soul piece needs to perform some form of magic 
before the murder that allows this to happen. Therefore, Voldemort 
may have prepared to split his soul on entering Harry's bedroom, and 
killing Lily caused his soul to split again.

To then use Harry's death as a Horcrux, he would have to split his 
soul again. I think there must be a limit to how many times you can 
split your soul, so why not seven!

And at that point, what was more important to Voldemort (1) to create 
a seven piece soul or (2) to use Harry's death to create a Horcrux. I 
like the thought that Voldemort's greed in making Horcruxes might 
have precipitated the events at Godric's Hollow!

Brothergib