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"It is stated at one point that Voldemort had already "pushed his soul to the limit"[5] in creating his seven Horcruxes. This implies a finite number of Horcruxes any one person may create before the process becomes too dangerous to attempt again. Though this limit is never explicitly stated, the number seems to bet solidly at seven intentional Horcruxes, and creating seven Horcruxes in addition to your own body renders the soul unstable and liable to break off when the person whose soul it is commits murder. Dumbledore explicitly stated that Voldemort's soul had become so unstable that it finally "broke apart" when Voldemort tried to murder Harry for the first time."

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Horcrux

7/30/2011 10:19:12 AM

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"hermione cleavage"

TRUTH

regarding the resurrection stone i don't get why it was never used.

8/1/2011 12:12:05 PM

^ Hmmmmm...I don't think it could have been used to any benefit. When the old story was told about the resurrection stone, it said that the woman who was brought back was not brought back in the way she use to be when she was alive. So she was sad and the guy ultimately hung himself. So I don't think it would have worked in any way that would have benefited Harry Potter.

8/1/2011 12:18:51 PM

8/1/2011 12:21:21 PM

dudes... he spoke to his parents... it doesn't really resurrect.

8/1/2011 12:27:19 PM

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"dudes... he spoke to his parents... it doesn't really resurrect."

8/1/2011 1:03:54 PM

embed please

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On-ZwJdzZ6o

8/3/2011 6:09:04 PM

Hate to revisit, and the author probably didn't even put as much thought into it as the fans do, but:

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"There's eight: -The diary. -The ring. -The chalice. -The tiara. -The locket. -The snake. -Harry. -Voldemort himself."

And I read that bit about there only being 6 at once, due to the snake becoming a horcrux after the diary was destroyed. A few questions:

1) When exactly did the snake become a horcrux? I don't remember that part. And this just goes back to the theory that he would have just made more horcruxes as they were destroyed. Oh, the diary was destroyed. Better crank out another. They found the ring, crud, bring me Uncle Scrooge's lucky dime.

I don't buy the instability after 7 bit because the claim is he made an 8th with the snake. Plus I'm sure Voldemort would have taken the risk once he got down to one or two horcruxes left.

2) How was Voldemort himself a horcrux or at the very least to be counted in with the others. Man that question sounds stupid, but didn't he already die when Harry was a baby? So that soul (or whatever) was gone, then he got a new body in GoF. It seems to me that Voldemort would have had to "sacrifice" one of the existing horcruxes in order to get his soul back into a new body. As far as I remember they just make a body and his ghost comes right back into it, no worse for the wear.

Also, if "only his body" was destroyed when Harry was an infant and his soul lived on, then what's the point of the horcruxes? You could just say - sure, the kids destroyed all the horcruxes, but Voldemort just pulled the you destroyed my body but not my soul trick on them again... or was it the horcruxes that prevented the original soul that inhabited the current Official Voldemort Body™ from being destroyed, so it was fair game once they were out of the way. I thought they worked more as a backup in case anything happened - I didn't think they served as a means of protection to the original soul... or whatever.

8/4/2011 8:24:38 AM

8/4/2011 8:49:31 AM

If I recall correctly, Nagini was made into a horcrux after book 4. Because when Voldemort was essentially destroyed by baby Harry, he thought he needed one more, not knowing that Harry was a horcrux. Voldemort isn't considered a Horcrux, because as the horcrux book explains in order to destroy a horcrux piece of soul, you just need to destroy the object. If you destroyed Voldemort's body, the piece of soul inside would be fine. So, prior to returning to his new body there was the 1. Ring 2. Diary 3. Locket 4. Cup 5. Diadem and 6. Harry. But Voldemort didn't know about Harry, so he made 7. Nagini, which made 8 pieces of soul, but seven horcruxes. In the book, the were searching for six horcruxes because he "split his soul into seven pieces." As mentioned before, Diary was destroyed before Nagini was changed.

Voldemort's soul was never destroyed when his original body was. Because he was not a horcrux, destruction of the body didn't destroy the piece of soul. That soul was what flitted around "like a shadow" through animals in the forest of Albania and Quirrell until he got his body back.

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"the horcruxes that prevented the original soul that inhabited the current Official Voldemort Body™ from being destroyed, so it was fair game once they were out of the way."

This is it exactly.

[Edited on August 4, 2011 at 9:14 AM. Reason : ]

8/4/2011 9:13:38 AM