Did Dumbledore divide his soul in HP and Half-Blood Prince?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 157889

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ken" <buckaroo_57 at ...> wrote:
>
>  I read the book and noticed how tired he was all the way through
> the book... and got to wondering if he had divided his soul... it
> would be a great way to make a comeback in the next book.
>  It would also explain why Snape suddenly killed him if Dumbledore
> had trusted him with this secret... might explain quite a few 
things that happened in the book.
> 

Tonks:
The answer is simply *No*.  The soul must stay intact as Slughorn 
told us. DD would not do anything to damage his soul. DD would have 
respect for the soul and the sanctity of the ancient magic that 
makes it a grave sin to split it. Soul splitting leans towards the 
dark side and DD never goes there.

Now I know you are going to argue that DD allowed Snape to kill him 
and in fact asked Snape to kill him, and didn't this split Snape's 
soul?  I suspect that Snape's soul was already damaged by his life 
as a DE. Snape's soul will be redeemed before we are finished, so 
not to worry.

One final thing. (Please don't take this personally, everyone does 
it.)  It seems that every time a new concept comes up in the books 
then we all start seeing it everywhere.  It becomes the motive, the 
method, etc. to every other thing that is, has or will happen. 
First it was time turners.  Now it is soul splitting and horcruxes.  
I think that JKR is very inventive and does not tend to use the same 
thing over and over.  She introduces it, uses it and moves on to 
another idea and a new invention.  But we start seeing whatever was 
her last great invention everywhere..  

Tonks_op