Timeline for Was Voldemort intending to create a horcrux when he attacked Harry Potter?

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Jan 11, 2019 at 16:57	comment	added	anaximander		@user13267 I've wondered that for ages. When Voldemort "died" at Godric's Hollow, Pettigrew got there in time to retrieve Voldemort's wand, Hagrid got there pretty fast - "before the Muggles started swarmin’ around" and presumably the Muggles would react fast to an explosion in a residential area - and Sirius arrived shortly thereafter (in time to give Hagrid his bike), but neither Voldemort nor any of those three ever mention retrieving an object that could be the Horcrux-to-be. Does some artifact of significant magic-related history now lie in a Muggle police division's evidence storeroom?
Sep 5, 2015 at 20:37	comment	added	Janus Bahs Jacquet		@user13267 Considering it’s possible to use both inanimate objects and living beings as Horcruxes, it’s possible (not sure how likely, but definitely possible) that he had actually planned to use Harry as a Horcrux—but a dead Harry, obviously; not the way it turned out. I’m sure a dead body would work just as well as anything, and the physical proof of his victory over the final obstacle on his path to immortality, the downfall of his most dangerous opponent, would certainly be a meaningful ‘object’ to use.
Jan 30, 2014 at 19:26	history	edited	b_jonas	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 33 characters in body
Sep 26, 2013 at 12:31	vote	accept	user13267
Sep 24, 2013 at 9:41	comment	added	user13267		If Dumbledore thinks so it must be true. However this isn't what gave me the idea about him wanting to create a horcrux at that time. Anyway, I think this is the best answer we have yet. if this is true however, it gives rise to another question: if he was intending to create a horcrux at that time, what magically significant object did he have then, and why didn't he use that object later on instead of Nagini?
Sep 22, 2013 at 19:02	history	answered	b_jonas	CC BY-SA 3.0