If Voldemort planned to make 7 Horcruxes and he did not plan for Harry to be one shouldn't there be another one?
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Since the magical number is seven for Horcruxes, and Voldemort made Harry unintentionally then  there must be an eighth right...???   Diary Ring Cup Locket Diadem Nagini Harry (Does not count because Voldemort did not know that Harry was a Horcrux) ??????
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I think I misunderstand Horcruxes here - are they used up? Or do they just exist to stop the person dying but are not actually 'used up' in the process? By this logic someone could be killed infinite times and still not die?
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I think that we have it well-established (regardless of whether or not one sees this as flawed logic) that Harry is not a Horcrux.  A Horcrux has to be made intentionally, and the recipient is cursed and classified as an "evil object," etc.  Neither of which is true for Harry - so, as stated by JKR herself, Harry is not a Horcrux as such.  But the fact remains that murder can, in fact, accidentally create something that shares a key property of the Horcrux: the soul splits, attaches itself to the nearest recipient, and lingers inside.  As it does in Harry's case.  So my question is: is this only true for wizards?  A Muggle cannot utilize a spell to create a Horcrux.  But, if a Horcrux-like object / being can be created accidentally through murder without intentional Horcrux-creating spells, can this also happen in the case of a Muggle committing murder?    Can a Muggle commit murder, have their soul split, and have the piece of the soul inadvertently attach itself to something nearby without any Horcrux-creating spell being cast?
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Why didn't the Order of the Phoenix assist with the trio (i.e.  Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger) in the Horcrux hunt?
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If Quirrell got burnt when he wanted to hurt Harry, why didn’t others? I mean, was this power Harry had from his mother mentioned in any other situation? Or did Lily's sacrifice just work for Voldemort and Quirrell died because of Voldemort?
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Does the canon explicitly address which of the following 3 acts cause a piece of Voldemort's soul to split off and embed into Harry?   Murdering Lily Trying to murder Harry (e.g. would the soul have split even if he didn't get hit by rebound Avada Kedavra?) Getting hit by rebound Avada Kedavra - if he didn't, the soul piece would NOT have split off.   Canon means books, JKR interviews or Pottermore.  I'm very specifically interested in information OTHER than Dumbledore's guess stated in chapter 24 ("The Prince's tale") of Deathly Hallows: ...     “Tell him that on the night Lord Voldemort tried to kill him, when Lily cast her own life between them as a shield, the Killing Curse rebounded upon Lord Voldemort, and a fragment of Voldemort’s soul was blasted apart from the whole, and latched itself onto the only living soul left in that collapsed building. Part of Lord Voldemort lives inside Harry, and it is that which gives him the power of speech with snakes, and a connection with Lord Voldemort’s mind that he has never understood. And while that fragment of soul, unmissed by Voldemort, remains attached to and protected by Harry, Lord Voldemort cannot die.“    ... and Chapter 25, "King's Cross":     “You were the seventh Horcrux, Harry, the Horcrux he never meant to make. He had rendered his soul so unstable that it broke apart when he committed those acts of unspeakable evil, the murder of your parents, the attempted killing of a child. But what escaped from that room was even less than he knew. He left more than his body behind. He left part of himself latched to you, the would-be victim who had survived.”    The reason is that this quote doesn't seem to very clearly point to causality, and also it was just Dumbledore's guess. I'm hoping one of the JKR sourced information sources would clarify this.
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Why didn't Dumbledore show his memory of Barty Crouch Jr's confession to Cornelius Fudge to confirm his point that Voldemort returned? Wouldn't that just prevent all the mumbo-jumbo happening in the 5th book?
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I'm not sure how much documentation there is on time in the HP universe, but time would obviously be an incredibly strong weapon to Voldemort, so I'm wondering why he didn't just rewind time and fix any errors he made in order to conquer the world. Harry and friends used it responsibly, I thought because there would be some punishment from the Ministry of Magic if they messed up time too badly (so Harry didn't go after Pettigrew when they went back in time).
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Not a year goes by where we don't see at least one person Sorted into each House, and it's usually a fairly even distribution.  The Sorting Hat doesn't get a chance to study the mind of each child before Sorting, so it can't Sort them relative to each other (top X in smarts go to Ravenclaw, 4 bravest to Gryffindor, etc)  What would happen if a Sorting occurred where all the witches/wizards were extremely intelligent?  Would they all get Sorted to Ravenclaw?  What if they were all extremely brave?  What if none of them were particularly smart or courageous, but they all wanted power?  We see that there's a fairly small number of beds per room in each dorm, would the Hat stop Sorting people into a House if it knew the House had no more beds?  If so, could Harry Potter have ended up in Hufflepuff if his last name had been 'Zimmers'?
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Once Voldemort realized that Harry Potter was hunting for Horcruxes and knew where they were (e.g. after visiting the cave), why wouldn't he simply pause, and make at least one MORE replacement Horcrux that Harry wouldn't know the location of (because obviously the locations were figured out by the now-dead Dumbledore and not Harry, as far as Voldemort's thinking would go)? This way, there's less risk for him on the chance that Harry succeeds. We know he can make extra Horcruxes since he created Nagini. If it was because he was racing against Harry, then why didn't he pause and create a new Horcux (say, by killing Lucius Malfoy) once Harry was &quot;dead&quot; and he could afford to pause? Canon based answers strongly preferred.
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In the seventh book (and the 7th &amp; 8th movie) of Harry Potter, it shows that a wand doesn't belong to a person anymore, or loses its loyalty if another witch or wizard disarms or defeats them.  Given that, why don't more children from earlier films and novels have to buy new wands? It shows students being disarmed many times.  Why was the disarming wand rule only valid in the 7th book?
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Seems to me that the only reason they didn't do it in the first place was because they were caught by Umbridge when she failed to fall for Nevile's ploy.   But once she was dragged away by the Centaurs after Harry and Hermione's encounter with Grawp in the forest, they seem to forget their initial plan altogether. Instead they opt to fly on comparatively slow Thestrals and waste hours flying to London, when the only obstacle that stood in their way of using the floo network is now in the middle of the forest having tea with the Centaurs.  They could have saved hours of time, and the whole catastrophe of the Ministry could have been avoided.
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Harry: "He made seven Horcruxes?"   Dumbledore: "...Not seven Horcruxes: six. The seventh part of his soul, however maimed, resides inside his regenerated body..." (HP6, US Hardback, page 503).    I would think that Dumbledore had already known that there were 6 horcruxes:    the diary  Gaunt's ring  Salazar's locket Helga Hufflepuff's cup Nagini (the whole essence divided thing)   Now those are the five that he was sure of. He knew that when Riddle came to Hogwarts to ask for the DADA position, he was really there so he could hide a horcrux. (But he never got a chance to tell Harry that, right?) Did Dumbledore know of the diadem? Or did he just think Riddle wanted to hide the cup?   Did Dumbledore say there were 6 and not 7 because he didn't know about the diadem but did know about Harry being a horcrux? Or did he say there were 6 to ensure Harry didn't guess he was a horcrux? Sorry if this makes no sense.  I know that in the end there were 7 horcruxes and an 8th part of Voldemort's soul right?
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Nobody knew about his Horcruxes (even Slughorn wasn't 100% sure). But still, there was a small probability that someone could discover his secret. So, he hid his Horcruxes very well. But, there was always a way to get to those Horcruxes.  Why didn't he hide his Horcruxes in a place which was out reach of anyone? Some examples: His own stomach, Center of Sun/Earth/Black Hole etc. He could also had simply made Voyager-1 a Horcrux..
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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 he had irreparably damaged it, so when the 2nd to last part of his soul was released, it appeared in limbo, where Harry saw it.  J. K. Rowling has said that after Voldemort was killed, that was all that remained of him.  But what about a person that isn't as twisted as Voldemort.  If someone creates a single Horcrux, so they have split their soul, but not to the point that Voldemort has, and then the Horcrux is destroyed, what happens when that person dies?  Will their incomplete soul be as damaged as Voldemort's, or will they be able to cross over to the afterlife?  Or is there a chance they'll be either trapped in limbo or be trapped on this side, as a ghost?
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Why did Voldemort never seek the Hallows before the events of the second wizard war?  It seems it would have been much easier for him to retrieve them.  James had the cloak, Regulus had the resurrection stone(not sure if I remember that correctly, I could be wrong), and Dumbledore had the elder wand.  It seems that it would have been much easier for Voldemort to get to the three seeing as the cloak was with Harry who's location was unknown and the stone was within the snitch Harry caught, which only he could open.  So, why did Voldemort wait to seek the Hallows?
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, chapter one The Dark Lord Ascending, Voldemort believes he must use a wand other than his own in order to kill Harry, when Harry is moved from Privet Drive. He demands Lucius Malfoy's wand, and gets it.   My question is, why did Voldemort take the wand of one of his most loyal servants, rendering Lucius Malfoy useless if a battle was to occur?  If I remember correctly, he had Ollivander at his disposal, and he was the one who told him to use another wand in first place. Why not ask Ollivander to create another wand, or just use ones that he had ready to sell in his shop at Diagon Alley? He could even have taken Ollivander's own wand. If my memories are correct, a wand's importance was compared to that of a limb.