Concerning Horcuxes

[Jo (Joanna)]

No: HPFGUIDX 169437

Anna wrote:

Rereading HBP, just past the part when Dumbledore shows Harry the 
TRUE memory of Slughorn, young Voldemort, and their conversation 
about Horcruxes, I still don't understand something:

Slughorn says that killing someone splits your soul, and that with 
said piece of soul, you can create a Horcrux.  Well, what about all 
the Aurors and others who killed in the numerous battles 
between "good" and the forces of Voldemort.  If they (the Aurors) 
killed dark wizards and such when trying to capture them, for 
example, aren't their souls split as well?  I mean, does the mere act 
of killing someone -- anyone -- split the soul, or is the soul only 
split when one does a particulary nasty/evil murder, or has the 
concious intention of creating a Horcrux?  Voldemort did countless 
murders, yet he only supposedly created 6 Horcruxes.  Do you think 
his soul is really split into a hundred-some-odd pieces?  Any ideas?  
Thanks.

Jo writes:

I relate this to the difference between someone who murders another 
person and how would be arrested / tried in court / sent to prison 
compared with someone in the army, during a war, who kills an enemy 
soldier.  The soldier is doing his or her job and this is not 
considered a crime.

Using this analogy Voldemort would be a murderer but the aurors would 
be soldiers in a war.

Jo.