[HPforGrownups] Re: The Nature & Destruction of Horcruxes

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 191210

bearhugger48 wrote:
> I am missing something here plz help me to understand. This piece of 
> dark magic Tom Riddle came to know as horcrux from the forbidden 
> library says that a wizard can separate his soul into 7 pieces?

Bart:
     OK, you have missed several details.

     Speaking in WW context, a horcrux is a piece of a person's soul 
torn off the rest of the soul, and placed in an object. A person cannot 
die if the horcrux is intact, although their life may be even less than 
the Hogwarts ghosts. The only known way to create a horcrux is a spell 
that includes, as part of it, a deliberate murder. Morty, being 
completely out of touch with his soul, has no understanding of why other 
wizards don't do this, except maybe they're not smart enough. In any 
case, he felt that one horcrux was still too vulnerable, so he decided 
to create 7 horcruxes, an apparently unprecedented move. By the time he 
killed James & Lily, he had created 5 horcruxes (diary, ring, locket, 
diadem, cup),. which, as far as we know, were four more than anybody 
else had ever created. When he failed to AK Harry, his soul was in such 
an incredibly weak state, and ready to split anyway (it is not 
unreasonable to think that he intended to use Harry's murder to create 
his 6th Horcrux) that a piece of his soul tore off and attached itself 
to little Harry, creating a never before seen sort of horcrux (let's 
call it the Harrycrux. Or not. Your choice). So, here are the 7 
horcruxes, in order of destruction:

1) Diary
2) Ring
3) Locket
4) Cup
5) Diadem
6) Harrycrux
7) Nagini

     Bart