Mortality of horcruxes?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 154332

<sugaranddixie1 at ...> wrote:

> I know he can give Nagini orders, but at that point, 
> he doesn't know where she is...and they're at the Riddle 
> house then which is in Muggle territory.  If you're a 
> Muggle and you come across a snake, won't you try to 
> destroy it?  So if Nagini had a piece of LV's soul in 
> her, wouldn't he want to know where she was?  At that 
> point the diary had already been destroyed, so he knew 
> he was one down anyway

houyhnhnm:

That is a good point that Voldemort didn't know where 
Nagini was.  Of course, he could possess her to find out 
where she was at any time.  But Voldemort was Baby!Mort 
at the time he made Nagini a horcrux, if he did. He was 
dependent on Wormtail for everything. He was weak.  The 
effort of possessing the snake probably sapped his strength.

"Liar," breathed the second voice. "I am no stronger, 
and a few days alone would be enough to rob me of the 
little health I have regained under your clumsy care. 
/Silence!/"

If it would be dangerous for a bodily able wizard "to 
confide a part of [his] soul to something that can think 
and move for itself" how much more so for something as 
weak and helpless as Baby!Mort.  It seems like it would 
have been safer to take another relic from the Riddle 
house, however commonplace.  But this is Voldemort the 
megalomaniac, for one thing.  And for another, it seems 
unlikely that he would want Wormtail to know about his 
horcruxes, especially one to which Wormtail had constant 
access.  It would give him too much power.  Maybe Nagini 
was the only object available to Voldemort for which he 
would not need Wormtail's help.  Voldemort would not 
have known anything about the destruction of the diary 
horcrux at the time he killed Frank Bryce. He didn't learn 
about that until he had regained his body and met with 
Lucius Malfoy again.