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+On Technology of Horcrux creation
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+
+:date: 2022-01-09T08:50:43
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+(my comments on “`Diary Horcrux Murder`_” by berkeleyjake)
+
+It may be possible that the result of the ritual sacrifice can be
+somehow stored and the ritual creating Horcrux can be done later.
+
+What’s more important is this:
+
+   “Well, you *split your soul*, you see,” said Slughorn, “and
+   *hide part of it* in an object outside the body. (HBP, chapter
+   23)
+
+and
+
+   “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* —”
+
+   “Encase? But how — ?”
+
+   “There is a spell, do not ask me, I don’t know!” said
+   Slughorn, shaking his head like an old elephant bothered by
+   mosquitoes. “Do I look as though I have tried it — do I look
+   like a killer?” (still Slughorn in the same chapter)
+
+and
+
+   […] what would happen to the wizard so determined to evade
+   death that he would be prepared to murder many times, rip his
+   soul repeatedly, so as *to store it in many, separately
+   concealed Horcruxes*. (Dumbledore in the same chapter)
+
+and
+
+   “No,” said Ron, before Harry could answer. “So does it say how
+   to destroy Horcruxes in that book?”
+
+   “Yes,” said Hermione, now turning the fragile pages as if
+   examining rotting entrails, “because it warns Dark wizards how
+   strong *they have to make the enchantments on them.* From all
+   that I’ve read, what Harry did to Riddle’s diary was one of
+   the few really foolproof ways of destroying a Horcrux.” (DH,
+   chapter 6)
+
+What I am saying is that Horcrux must be LATER created from
+a part of soul separated by a murder (or ritual sacrifice)
+BEFORE. Which means that first must be murder and then there is
+Horcrux-creating ritual (“a spell” as Slughorn said), and then
+perhaps even later there is some more magic to “make the
+enchantments on them” to protect the Horcrux from destruction.
+
+Conclusion is obvious. It was not possible for Voldemort to
+create a real Horcrux and even less it was possible for him to
+make those protective enchantments on it when he was killed just
+after the act of murder which was supposed to rip a part of his
+soul by murdering Harry. Therefore, whatever was in the Harry’s
+scar was not a full-fledged Horcrux and certainly it lacked those
+protective enchantments (if there are any).
+
+----
+
+There is a flaw in my argument (I still stand behind Harry’s scar
+not being a full-fledged Horcrux, although we don’t know whether
+it still couldn’t somehow help Tom Riddle to stand back from
+death). What’s the deciding point in time is actually a murder
+not creation of a Horcrux. If Tom Riddle ripped part of his soul
+by killing Myrtle Warren, then it would remember only things
+which happened before her death.
+
+How much alive is the part of the soul in the Horcrux? And does
+it have any means of perception? I don’t think so. So, even if it
+was still alive and it still had some self-consciousness (and
+that’s truly disgusting), it couldn’t learn about things which
+happened after Myrtle’s death, which Ginny didn’t know about.
+
+Actually, there is a flaw even in this contra-argument. If the
+diary was made into a horcrux, it is probable that at least for
+the rest of his Hogwarts years (and possibly for a long time
+afterwards) Tom Riddle was carrying the thing around and perhaps
+even writing into it. So, his memories of post-Myrtle-death
+events could there that way. Umph, I am glad to have this solved.
+
+So, yes, a horcrux is a living thing, which can still learn
+things. Ewww.
+
+
+.. _`Diary Horcrux Murder`:
+    https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/rzly4u/diary_horcrux_murder/