How to make a horcrux

[Wayne Cochran]

No: HPFGUIDX 159255

I have a theory that could explain Harry!horcrux or Scar!horcrux, 
although I am going out on a limb here. Have we ever been told the 
ritual that is undertaken in creating a horcrux? I think that it is 
a complicated process that targets two separate things, the victim 
and the item the soul piece becomes attached to. So, under this 
theory, presumably, the ritual must begin before the murder takes 
place, and ends when the soul piece becomes encased in another 
object. Now, once a ritual like this starts, theoretically, it 
cannot be stopped until it is completed. What if LV began this 
ritual after getting James Potter out of the way? If all of this is 
so, then his plan was to go straight to Harry, AK him, and then 
encase his soul piece in whatever object he was planning on using. 
But, Lily steps in. He tells her to step aside, she refuses. Enraged 
at this silly girl, he AK's her instead. In his rage, he forgets 
that he must do something with this soul piece now, and instead goes 
right for Harry, who is now protected by the ancient magic of Lily's 
sacrifice. Here we have several possibilities.

1. As soon as LV points the wand at Harry, his soul fractures, 
leaving part of it in Harry or at least in the scar. Because of 
Lily's protective magic, as well as his own soul bit now with Harry, 
when the words Avada Kadavara are uttered, it is deflected back at 
LV, ripping the remaining part of his soul from his body, the 
combine force of the two soul pieces clashing magically destroying 
the house.

2. LV, realizing that he must encase this soul bit now, attempts to 
take care of that matter, but because Lily's death was a love 
sacrifice charm itself, caused the horcrux spell to not properly 
resolve, destroying his body, sending one soul bit into Harry, the 
other soul part in the other direction, the force destroying the 
house.

There is also the possibility that LV had waited till Harry was 
before him unprotected before he began the ritual. At this point, 
Lily's sacrifice itself may have caused an interference in the 
horcrux creating spell, causing the whole thing to go off at once, 
AKing Harry while simultaneously encasing his soul bit in him.

There is just so much we don't know about horcruxes. I think 
Slughorn will play a larger role in Book 7, giving Harry one more 
reason to make a short stop at Hogwarts.

Feel free to expand on or tear apart any and all of these theories.

Raven Heart, exhausted, and likely not making a whole lot of scents, 
cents, since, or scence.