[HPforGrownups] Re: Concerning Horcuxes

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 169534

Sherry Bailey:
>It seems to me that someone making a Horcrux would choose an item which 
>seems relatively benign BUT which has enough intrinsic value or 
>interest to be preserved and not discarded casually or otherwise put in 
>jeopardy. Powerful magical objects would qualify, among other things.

Bart:
Of course, you must remember that it takes a specially sick mind to create a Horcrux in the first place; someone so cut off from their own soul that they don't even miss it when a chunk is missing. While murder may tear the soul apart, it can be repaired. But once a horcrux is created, the repair can no longer be made. Theoretically, that would make it a fate worse than death. But Voldemort doesn't even notice the difference. 

And that is why he is irredeemable. He has lost so much of his soul that he is little more than an animal now. With the soul comes the ability to make choices; he can no longer do so, but is trapped on the path he created for himself. 

Bart