Quirrell & Voldemort (was Re: Marauder's map question, prior to PoA)

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 192004



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bruce Mull <bpmull at ...> wrote:
>
> Slightly OT:
> > Cristina Angelo cristina_angelo at ... said
> > Correction: 1/8th of a soul -7 voluntary horcruxes, plus Harry.
> Which makes me wonder if Riddle would appear attached to Harry if
> > the Map could recognize that kind of magic...
 
> Bruce:
> Actually, each time a Horcrux is made, the soul is ripped in half.
> So, by the time Harry came along Voldy had only 1/32 of his soul
> (diary 1/2, ring 1/4, locket 1/8, cup 1/16 and diadem 1/32 - there
> is good evidence for this ordering). Thus, Harry has 1/64 of Voldy's
> soul and after being restored to a body, Voldy split THAT in half to
> create Nagini, so Harry has more Voldy in him than Voldy himself!
> Isn't THAT weird?

Geoff:
At the risk of being pedantic, I could say "That ain't necessarily so..."
:-)

Certainly in the early references in HBP Chapter 23 "Horcruxes", 
both Slughorn in the Pensieve conversation with Tom Riddle and 
Dumbledore in his follow up discussion with Harry merely talk about 
a soul being split, neither specifying "in half".

Even under those circumstances, the soul might not split EXACTLY
equally so that there is a probability  that your hypothesis might 
not be correct.

Geoff
Retired Maths and Computing teacher UK