Just summon your Snorlax: Re: Those dam Hordevours!

[Randy]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at j...> wrote:
> I said, regarding Tom Riddle using the "soul tears" from old 
murders:
> > > This assumes one can "save up" the soul fragments from a 
murder 
> > > and use them later, which I doubt.  I suspect that horcrux 
must 
> > > be made 
> > > at or immemdiately after the time of the murder.
> 
> 
> and Jo said:
> > I'm curious why do you doubt this?
> >
> > The way I see it is that we are told murder tears the soul, but 
not 
> > that the remnant promptly exits stage left. Why would it?  DD 
> > indicates that there is a primary bit of soul, the one still 
with 
> > Voldy, that appears to anchor all the others. 
> > 
> > A rip caused by murder would, I imagine, remain entire unless 
the 
> > individual attempted to heal it (remorse, reparation etc). 
Creating 
> > a HRX, to me, implies removing the off cut and depositing it 
> > elsewhere, something that can be done any time or place, 
subsequent 
> > to the death, that you choose.
> 
> Good post, Jo, I copied the whole thing instead of excerpting.
> 
> Going back and looking at Slughorn's description of the horcrux, I 
> agree there is nothing that says the murder must be recent. 
However, 
> being able to say, "Hey!  I murdered some guy twenty years ago, I 
> just realized I can make a horcrux!" seems, well, too easy.  
Hermione 
> finds a book saying the horcrux is the "wickedest of magical 
> inventions", so wicked that the book "Magick Moste Evile" refuses 
to 
> discuss it.  The topic is banned at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore is 
> adamant about the ban.  If the problem with horcruxes was that 
only 
> murderers could make them, that doesn't seem evil enough to get 
this 
> treatment. AK is discussed openly, and there are plenty of 
murderers 
> in the wizarding world.  So, I was thinking that it had to be more 
> than just a murder in one's past, and that an unwilling human 
> sacrifice was part of the actual creation of the horcrux.  
> 
> However, I was just talking to a friend, and she said that perhaps 
> the murder isn't what makes the horcrux so evil.  What makes it so 
> evil, maybe, is how it permanently separates the soul -- she 
compared 
> it to selling your soul to the devil.  So, that is another 
> possibility.
> 
> As for what happens to one's torn soul long after committing 
murder, 
> I definitely don't think the fragment of soul leaves.  We've seen 
> that, when Tom Riddle got rid of fragments of his soul, he became 
> less human, even in appearance.  Having part of your soul leave 
you 
> seems to be very rare.  I was thinking more that the horcrux could 
> only be made when the rip in the soul was fresh.  After a time, 
the 
> rip would sort of scar over.  But that is just speculation.  I 
hadn't 
> thought of repentance as being needed to heal the soul; I like 
that 
> idea.
> 
> -- Judy

Randy:  

Interesting posts on the process.  It seems to me you just take out 
your pokeball and Yell "Snorlax, I choose you!"  Then the guy pops 
out of the pokeball and is ready to do battle with the other 
snorlaxes in the stadium.  If you don't have any kids (especially 
small boys) you may not understand these comments. ;0)