Re: How does the soul divide up when you create a Horcrux?

nystulc@xxxxxx wrote:

Thom Madura wrote:

nystulc@xxxxxx wrote:

I agree with this. Note that, until it is found and destroyed, a
single Horcrux is enough to render its owner immortal. That is why no
wizard before Voldemort ever thought to create more than one.


Actually, we have nothing to support this and it is likely that it
is not true that nobody ever "THOUGHT" to create more than one
Horcrux.


Okay. Sure.


In
fact - we have no information that he is the only one to ever do
it. TO be fair - we have no information on anyone else ever having
created Horcruxes - one or many.


As you wish. I am willing to accept, based on the combined statements
of Dumbledore, Slughorn, and Voldemort, that no-one was ever known,
before Voldemort, to have created more than one Horcrux. This
suffices for my only point -- that the normal use of a Horcrux,
insofar as anyone has heard of it at all, is to create only one.

This coincides with the evidence of folklore: Each evil wizard, giant
or demon gets only one external soul object per tale.


I have often thought that the real reason why DD was so dead set
against teacing about Horcruxes was that Grindewald used them -


Used IT, you mean. If Grindelwald created more-than-one soul object,
Dumbledore certainly knew nothing about it.


Well - while I spelled Teaching wrong in the sentence - I used the plural - Ie Horcruxes - so them is correct.

There is no word in the books that ANYONE used horcruxes before V - other than we know someone must have since the spell is old.

At the same time - Slughorn - when asked about more than one Horcrux - although he was indeed upset about it -only answered "Of course this is all hypothetical ..."- he never dismissed the possibility. And Dumbledore only said as as far as I and Voldemort know. Voldemort himself never said. I also have a problem with DD speaking for V on this.
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