Those dam Hordevours!

[mooseming]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at j...> wrote:
> Snow suggested a possible "Hordevours" (great name!):
> 
> > Riddle's special-services-to-the-
> > school-award. 
> > ...Riddle used items that did not belong to him but he took some 
> > pride in. Riddle did not deserve to be honored by a school award 
> > for the fake capture of Hagrid killing Moaning Myrtle. 
> 
> Very clever idea!  
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- Judy

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.

I'd like to know how you see it, it has big implications for all our 
theories!! ;)

Regards
Jo