Questions tagged [horcrux]
For questions about "Horcruxes" in Harry Potter in which a person has concealed part of their soul, thus making that person immortal whilst the Horcrux is still intact. Always use with the [harry-potter] tag.
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Why do Harry and Dumbledore need to get the memory from Slughorn?
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore orders Harry to retrieve the memory about the talk with Tom Riddle/Voldemort from Slughorn. The memory is said to be needed because it contains ...
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Why Didn't Dumbledore Take the Sword of Gryffindor With Him to the Sea Cave (Locket Horcrux)?
Dumbledore took Harry along with him to the sea cave where the locket Horcrux was hidden because he felt Harry had earned the right to accompany him. However, why did Dumbledore neglect to bring the ...
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Why couldn't Voldemort trace Harry's residence and kill him?
As we all know that Voldemort had one of his Horcruxes in as Harry himself, but sighting that he would be defeated at the hands of Harry, why didn't he - the Dark Lord - take a look into the future to ...
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Why Wasn't the Resurrection Stone Destroyed Along With the Ring Horcrux?
Dumbledore destroyed the Horcrux element of Marvolo Gaunt's Peverell ring with the Sword of Gryffindor, splitting the Resurrection Stone portion of the ring in half in the process.
Harry noticed a ...
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Why Was It 'Essential' That Voldemort Kill Harry Potter?
‘So the boy ... the boy must die?’ asked Snape, quite calmly.
‘And Voldemort himself must do it, Severus. That is essential.’
Deathly Hallows - page 551 - UK Hardcover - chapter 33, The Prince's ...
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Could the Sword of Gryffindor have destroyed a horcrux before it absorbed the Basilisk Venom
As I recall Harry and Hermione figured out that the Sword of Gryffindor could be used to destroy a horcrux because it absorbed the Basilisk Venom. The sword absorbs anything that can make it stronger....
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When did Umbridge acquire the locket of Slytherin?
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows we discover that the true locket Horcrux is in the possession of Dolores Umbridge. Apparently she confiscated it from Mundungus Fletcher's backalley fence, in ...
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How did Diary-Riddle hope to come back?
In Slytherincess' wonderful answer she explains that
The soul piece cannot live without a receptacle to hold it; if there were no receptive person to latch onto, the piece of soul would presumably ...
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What happens if you release a soul from a Horcrux/container?
Pursuant to this question, if you were to free a soul from the Horcrux or another container (i.e. Harry) without destroying the soul, what would happen to it?
This is what appear to happen to ...
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At which point did Dumbledore know/guess about the 7 Horcruxes?
We know that Dumbledore knew about Horcruxes at least as early as Harry's parents' deaths (he stated to Snape that Voldemort would be back).
And in Harry's 6th year, he knew that there were 7 for ...
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What order were Lord Voldemort's horcruxes made in?
In what order and when were Voldemort's Horcruxes made? I found a list with destruction dates. But not creation date.
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Could Fawkes's Tears Have Healed Tom Riddle's Diary
Per the title: Could Fawkes's tears have healed Tom Riddle's diary after Harry stabbed it with a Basilisk fang?
As it was pointed out to me in Why Didn't the Basilisk Bite in Book Two Destroy the ...
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Where did Voldemort find Nagini?
From memory, Voldemort's pet snake doesn't make an appearance in the Harry Potter series until book 4, Goblet of Fire. When Nagini attacks Mr. Weasley, nobody really makes the connection between a ...
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Is Nagini the snake Harry freed on Dudley's birthday?
“Yes, it’s rather funny, really, that next to no-one realised the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher’s Stone turned out to be Voldemort’s final Horcrux, Nagini.”
— (not actually) J.K. Rowling
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How Would Harry Breaking the Unbreakable Vow Have Affected the Piece of Voldemort's Soul?
Based on what we know from canon, how would Harry breaking an Unbreakable Vow have affected him and the piece of Voldemort's soul inside him? What would have happened?
It was determined in Could the ...
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If Voldemort broke an unbreakable vow would he die?
Jeff's reply in Why didn't Voldemort use the Unbreakable Vow with his Death Eaters? naturally brought up the question of what would happen if Voldemort entered into an Unbreakable Vow and then ...
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Are Living Beings Turned Into Horcruxes Suceptible to Age, Disease, or Injury?
From the HP books I know that Horcruxes grant a form of immortality. So, it is not possible for someone who created a Horcrux to die from old age or succumb to diseases. I guess the same is true for ...
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How did Harry become a Horcrux?
To make a Horcrux, certainly murder can't be the only requirement. It is obvious a proper spell is needed for completing a Horcrux. Voldemort could have made a thousand Horcruxes, as he had already ...
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Is it possible to reintegrate a Horcrux?
As anyone who is familiar with Harry Potter knows, a horcrux is made when someone commits murder and stores a piece of their soul in something. Would it be possible for this someone to later recover ...
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What Happens to Someone Whose Horcrux Was Destroyed When they Die?
When someone makes a Horcrux, part of their soul is stored in it, and when the Horcrux is destroyed, so is part of their soul.
In the case of Voldemort, he had split his soul into so many parts that ...
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Is it possible to break a horcrux, and if so what happens then? [duplicate]
Is it possible to break a Horcrux? I don't mean destroy, but if a glass cup is a Horcrux, will it still be whole after it drops from a great height? And then what happens to the Horcrux if it ís ...
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What is the first clue that Horcruxes are Voldemort's means to achieve immortality?
I'm assuming anyone who might answer this question has read all seven of the Harry Potter books.
With the benefit of a completed canon and fully-informed hindsight, at what point in the series is ...
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Was Voldemort aware that he had created another Horcrux?
Voldemort set out to create Horcuxes to ensure his immortality, but he inadvertently created an additional one in a living being,
Was Voldemort aware that this happened? It seems to me that if he ...
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Why were there seemingly no major magical protections on other Horcruxes than the locket?
It seems that out of all the Horcruxes, only one (the locket) was actually well protected.
Why were the others not protected nearly as well?
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Why didn't the basilisk bite in Chamber of Secrets destroy the Horcrux?
As the title asks, why didn't the basilisk bite received in the Chamber of Secrets destroy the Horcrux inside the bitten person?
Yes, I know Fawkes quite quickly healed the bite wound with his ...
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Did Prof. Quirrell's body house two fragments of Voldemort's soul?
From HP Wikia's "Horcrux" article:
J. K. Rowling revealed in Pottermore that Prof. Quirinus Quirrell served as a temporary Horcrux when Voldemort's soul possessed his body during Harry Potter's ...
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If a living Horcrux was killed "normally", would they stop being one?
Inspired by trying to answer Is a Living Being a Poor Choice for a Horcrux?. Spoilers for book 7.
Would the 8th fragment of soul in him be destroyed if he had been killed by some other means (say, a ...
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Would Crabbe's Fiendfyre have destroyed Horcrux in HP?
Inspired by trying to answer "Is a living being a poor choice for a Horcrux?"
We know that Crabbe's Fiendfyre destroyed the Diadem as a Horcrux.
Is there any evidence in canon that would indicate ...
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Is a living being a poor choice for a Horcrux?
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, near the end:
From this, we know if a living being is a Horcrux, then when that being dies, the part of the soul associated with that Horcrux is released. Is ...
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Could Harry Potter's touch hurt or kill Nagini?
NiceOrc made an interesting comment that is a good thing to ask separately, in a comment to
Why Couldn't Harry Destroy the Horcruxes With His Bare Hands? :
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Why Couldn't Harry Destroy the Horcruxes With His Bare Hands?
Again, just using the spoiler tag as a courtesy. Anyhow. . .
In Sorcerer's Stone, Harry is able to destroy Professor Quirrell, possessed by Voldemort, by his mere touch. JKR reveals at Pottermore the ...
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Can a wizard choose where to place their soul piece when creating a horcrux?
In the world of Harry Potter a wizard can remove a part of their soul and place it into another object through the act of homicide, thus creating a Horcrux. Is the wizard able to direct their soul ...
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Could the Sorting Hat Have Told Dumbledore That Harry Was a Horcrux?
The Sorting Hat is a sentient magical artifact that has the ability to initiate communication and have conversations with the person wearing it. There's two things that make me wonder if it would have ...
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Why Didn't Voldemort Monitor His Horcruxes?
After reading Why didn't Voldemort collect the horcruxes after he was resurrected?, I remember that Voldemort was not aware of the destruction of most of his horcruxes.
But considering the importance ...
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Why didn't Voldemort collect the Horcruxes after he was resurrected?
If Voldemort knew Harry and Dumbledore were searching for all the Horcruxes and then destroying them, or if he knew somehow when a Horcrux got destroyed, why then didn't he just collect all of the ...
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If diary Tom Riddle had succeeded, would there have been two Voldemorts?
As teenager Tom Riddle is speaking to Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets, both he and Harry are refering to the real Voldemort in the third person. If Tom Riddle had succeeded in sucking all the ...
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