Jumbled thoughts

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Could it be that Voldemort told Lily to step aside because murdering 
her would have torn his soul and his aim was to use Harry's death to 
make the next and final Horcrux? Voldemort only wanted to make seven 
Horcruxes in all (Of course one of the soul fragments remains with 
Voldy) and Dumbledore's assumption was that Harry was the last death 
he needed. HBP U.S. 506 

Voldemort had also said that he killed James that same night but the 
difference was that James had a wand and was attempting to do battle. 
It appears that innocent lives/unarmed victims (such as Lily, Harry, 
Frank, the Riddles
) would be murder that rips the soul whereas 
dueling like the `courageous fight' from James would be considered 
self-defense if James were to die at the hands of Voldemort. 
Interesting that Voldemort gave Harry his wand back in the graveyard
 
guess he knew he couldn't just murder the unarmed boy or he would be 
going over his seven Horcrux limit.

As Dumbledore surmised, Voldemort chose certain persons to make a 
Horcrux from their deaths. Voldemort did not want to murder Lily 
because he knew that his soul would be split with her death thus 
suggesting that she move aside because she was of little importance 
to him. Lily being unarmed would have ripped his soul (with her 
murder) and Voldemort wanted Harry to be his last victim with which 
he would make his final Horcrux. 

Now if, Voldemort already created the last soul fragmentation with 
Lily's death and knew he could not commit another murder or he would 
be splitting his soul beyond the magical number he originally 
intended, did he attempt the AK on Harry anyway in disregard to his 
previous plan? Murderers kill in great numbers so there really 
shouldn't be a problem with going over his original numbered 
killings. Although the difference between a murderer and Voldemort is 
that the murders committed by Voldemort have already been made into 
Horcruxes, which means that at the time of Lily's death Voldemort had 
5/7ths of his soul residing outside of his body whereas a murderer 
could kill many times and not have the same effect as Voldemort 
because the murderers soul bits (no matter how mutilated) remain 
inside him (his soul isn't whole but there could still be a chance to 
save it because all of the soul remains in one place). [There is an 
entire Snape theory on this one]

Maybe Voldemort did not take everything into consideration when he 
approached Harry with what was left of his core-soul split in two. 
Voldemort approaches baby Harry with two pieces of split/soul 
residing in him and makes an attempt on Harry's life, could 
Voldemort's core-soul afford to be split again? Or did his action 
join the murderer to his victim by way of the unused soul fragment 
that was caused by Lily's death. Would this actually be seen as a 
Horcrux or just an unintentional connection?  Voldemort's core-soul 
departed in vapor so what happened to the split that was made with 
Lily's death?

Why did Voldemort want significant deaths in which to create his 
Horcruxes? Is there a reason beyond that of status? Does the person's 
soul, whose death was used to split Voldemort's soul, attribute 
anything somehow? The Diary had a memory of Tom so maybe the locket 
and the ring carried something from the victim's soul that was 
murdered to make their killing into a Horcrux. 

One more trip to the graveyard scene
if Voldemort purposely gave 
Harry back his wand with the premise of dueling (so as not to commit 
murder) to protect the little bit of soul he had left and he 
commanded Pettigrew to kill the spare (who by the way had a wand but 
was not using it at the time as a threat), then who may have killed 
Bertha? Frank Bryce's death, according to Dumbledore, was used to 
make the final Horcrux with Nagini before the re-birthing party so 
why didn't Voldemort use unarmed Bertha to make his final Horcrux? 
Unless, Voldemort was not in Baby/Mort stage at that point and could 
not hold a wand. 

This brings up another question
if Lily's death split Voldemort's 
soul, which I'm assuming it had, then wouldn't Frank's death been one 
split more than the magical number? 

Enough rambling for today
its making my head spin worse than when I 
started

Snow 

Can't help myself
just one more thought. Read Celestina's song from a 
Very Frosty Christmas with Horcruxes on your mind
its interesting!