Were HP and DD wrong? (spoilers, of course)

[quigonginger]

PUT IN THE SPOILER SPACE, THEY SAID.

SO FOLKS WON'T KNOW (DELETE) IS DEAD.

THEY MUSN'T KNOW ABOUT THE (THING)

OR OTHER INFO WE MAY BRING.

IF YOU'VE NOT READ THE WHOLE DARN BOOK,

STOP RIGHT NOW! REFUSE TO LOOK!

FOR WE ALL KNOW THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

IS NONE OTHER THAN MADAM PINCE.

HA. SERVES YOU RIGHT FOR READING THIS FAR IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE 
BOOK YET.



I have a question about how Horcruxes work. Ok, I have a zillion 
questions, but I'll only go into a few of them here.

If one has Horcruxes made, and is killed, does the part of the soul 
in that person die? Or does one of the Horcruxes empty itself of a 
soul? In other words, when LV was killed at GH, did a part of his 
soul that was in him die or one that was in a Horcrux? In either 
case aren't we down to 6, unless he has made another to replace the 
one he used then? 

What happens to the empty Horcrux? Is it destroyed? Does it revert 
back to being just an artifact? Does one have to have it on one's 
person? Is a spell required to activate it? To reunite it with the 
body? 

We saw what happens if the body is destroyed. You wander around 
Albania for a decade. If the body is still intact, can one just hop 
back into it with another part of one's soul? In the case of 
numerous Horcruxes, is there a pecking order as to which one gets to 
take over? 

On a related thought, could a Horcrux be in the Room of Requirement? 
Perhaps RR hid something there during a time when she thought the 
Muggles would storm the castle, and left it there for safekeeping. 
If TR found it, and took it along when he killed his parents, and 
used it, he may have felt that the RofR was the safest place for it 
and put it back. He could have easily checked on it during his 
Quirrel days, but what he needed then was a body, not an extra soul, 
so he left it put.

Can an object be transfigured when it is a Horcrux? Could Rowena's 
whatever have been transfigured by TR into the wig on the bust, or 
something like that? 

Ginger, wondering How many horns can a Slughorn slug if a Slughorn 
can slug horns.