[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Horcrux

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 170884

From: jojobinks1983 <jojobinks1983 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Anyone think that in defeating Grindewald Dumbledore may have magicked 
>himself a Fawkes shaped Horcrux?

Bart:
Not no way, not no how.

First of all, there is NO evidence that Dumbledore murdered Grindewald.

Second of all, creating a horcrux is NOT just a matter of committing a murder. It's a willingness to lose a piece of one's own soul. In general, the only kind of person who could do that is someone who is so out of touch with their own soul that they don't even miss its absence; in other words, a sociopath or psychopath. Dumbledore is neither. 

Would you become immortal if the price was that you would contract Alzheimers Disease? When you create a horcrux, you may be harder to kill, but you are no longer you, unless you were essentially soulless to begin with.

Bart