There are some popular theories flying around the internet about the possibility that Dumbledore may have accidentally made a horcrux and that the object containing the fragment was either Fawkes the Phoenix, The Elder Wand, or something else. Could Dumbledore have made a horcrux?
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13Anyone who has any idea how Horcruxes work can't take this theory seriously. If Dumbledore had a Horcurx then why did he not survive his death?– The Dark LordJun 13, 2016 at 1:30
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12@TheDarkLord - Speaking from experience, I see.– ibidMar 5, 2017 at 22:34
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See also scifi.stackexchange.com/q/156565/4918 "Why didn't Harry Potter and Dumbledore create Horcruxes to battle Lord Voldemort?"– b_jonasApr 5, 2017 at 13:49
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@TheDarkLord How do you know he didn't? His main body died, but his soul is Earth-bound and he can return in future books/ movies.– user931Nov 20, 2018 at 6:46
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1@SyedM.Sannan Yeah, I remember now. Thanks. But, I maintain the position that he didn’t die.– user931Oct 29, 2023 at 4:00
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According to JK Rowling, probably not.
It turns out this theory reached the author herself and she responded on twitter.
ROWLING: The idea that anyone believes this is strangely upsetting to me.
Since the idea of her fans entertaining such thoughts is upsetting to her, we can take that to mean that at no point did Dumbledore make any sort of horcrux.
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2Also JK has mentioned previously that there is along process involved in making horcruxes, and (I have heard) that her editor is the only person who heard it, and they threw up. So I would say Dumbledore would not go through such a process, whatever it may be.– BeccaJun 15, 2016 at 21:40
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2You may want to add her following two tweets: twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/728630869590683649 twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/728650618785681408– ibidMar 5, 2017 at 22:33
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J. K. Rowling is daughter of Dumbledore. I believe that's why she didn't like the rumor.– user931Mar 6, 2017 at 9:13
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How J. K. Rowling is daughter of Dumbledore ? Can you please elaborate ? @NewtScamander Nov 20, 2018 at 6:37
You have to commit murder to create a Horcrux. And while Dumbledore may have killed, there's no evidence that he's murdered anyone.
‘By an act of evil –the supreme act of evil. By committing murder. Killing rips the soul apart. The wizard intent upon creating a Horcrux would use the damage to his advantage: he would encase the torn portion –’
Half-Blood Prince | Horcruxes
answered Mar 5, 2017 at 21:43
No - he appears in the afterlife to Harry as whole.
When Harry lets Voldemort kill him to destroy the piece of Voldemort’s soul inside him, both Harry and Voldemort go into a sort of limbo where Harry’s soul that has not been split appears exactly as Harry does, and Voldemort’s soul that had been split several times appears as a flayed child. Dumbledore appears there to greet and advise Harry, and he is whole. He also confirmed to Harry that he is indeed dead.
“Stunned, Harry followed as Dumbledore strode away from where the flayed child lay whimpering, leading him to two seats that Harry had not previously noticed, set some distance away under that high, sparkling ceiling. Dumbledore sat down in one of them, and Harry fell into the other, staring at his old Headmaster’s face. Dumbledore’s long, silver hair and beard, the piercingly blue eyes behind half-moon spectacles, the crooked nose: everything was as he had remembered it. And yet …
‘But you’re dead,’ said Harry.
‘Oh, yes,’ said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.”
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 35 (King’s Cross)
Since the state of his soul in the afterlife is seen as being whole, this is clear confirmation that he did not make a Horcrux.
You can't accidentally make a Horcrux, as covered in this question.
Therefore, Dumbledore couldn't have made a Horcrux unwillingly or unknowingly.
About Dumbledore making a Horcrux intentionally, I think the other answers cover that perfectly. No, he didn't.
