Diary!Tom/Soul Pieces, WAS: A recommendation

[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 177711

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:

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Did anybody else notice that diary Tom seemed to have a bigger soul 
piece than Morty did? 
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> Bart
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***Katie:

I did notice that. My assumption about the reasons behind that have 
to do with the way making Horcruxes works. 

Assuming the ring came before the diary- which I think makes sense - 
since I think Harry says that TR Sr. was the first murder - so, 
assuming the diary was the second Horcrux...Voldy's soul would have 
only been split in half at that point. A full quarter of his soul 
would have gone into the diary. At least, this is what I understood 
about soul-splitting/murder/Horcruxes from DD's explanation. The 
first time you kill someone, it tears your soul in half. So, at the 
making of the diary, TR still had a full half of a soul, which then 
split again into quarters.

Subsequent Horcruxes, therefore, would have half of quarter (cup), 
half of an eighth (locket)...yadda yadda. Each Horcrux would have a 
smaller soul piece than the last one...finally leaving Voldy with the 
smallest soul piece of all. I am reminded of Darth Vader saying he 
was "more machine than man"...same idea. Voldy had very little 
humanity left after splitting his soul so many times. And think of 
all the people he killed and *didn't* make Horcruxes out of! He 
murdered LOTS of people...he had a very itty bitty piece of soul 
left. 

Conversely, since the diary was made just after the ring, it would 
have had a much larger soul piece. 

Does that make sense? : )

Katie