In order to split the soul for creating a Horcrux, he/she must commit the act of murder as killing someone rips the soul apart. Regardless, the endeavor to undo the mutilation on one's soul is impossible after death as its state afterwards remained that way.Ī Horcrux is created by placing a piece of a wizard's soul into an object that he/she wishes to convert into. It is unknown if this was either a standard fate meted out for all Horcrux creators, or if it was unique to Voldemort due to the number of Horcruxes he created. That was when he learned those who mutilated their own soul won't be able to move on from limbo, let alone returning as a ghost because of its maimed and unwhole state, a terrible fate that would await his nemesis that prompted Harry to try to reason with the Dark Lord to no avail.
Killing Curse, the Boy Who Lived once again survived thanks to both the presence of said soul fragment and his late mother's lingering sacrificial protection, and briefly entered Limbo in which he discovered Voldemort's soul fragment that died with him existed in the stunted form of a flayed and mutilated baby. As little was known of the subject at that time, no one knew what the effects of creating more than one Horcrux would be, because, aside from Voldemort, nobody had done so.īy the time Harry Potter sacrificed himself to destroy a fragment of Voldemort's soul inside him and ensure his loved ones' safety by allowing the Dark Lord to kill him via. The only known book that explained Horcruxes in detail was Secrets of the Darkest Art. Hogwarts banned the subject of Horcruxes, and even books such as Magick Moste Evile only skimmed the subject, at best. The nature and concepts of Horcruxes were so terrifying, they were kept secret from most of the wizarding world, and only few ever knew what they were.
Aside both of them, it was suggested that there were few other wizards whom also create their own Horcruxes, as Horace Slughorn mentioned that the fate of those who used Horcruxes to survive was what only few would prefer. The other known Horcrux creator was Lord Voldemort, whom become the first and possibly the only known wizard whom create more than one Horcrux. In the Harry Potter series, Horcrux was said to be invented by Herpo the Foul, the same Dark Wizard who invented the means to create a Basilisk snake over 900 years ago in Greece. This concerns the Horcruxes in general as well as the most famous ones that used to sustain the life of the Harry Potter franchise's main villain Lord Voldemort. Creating multiple Horcruxes was suggested to be costly to the creator, by both diminishing their humanity and even physically disfiguring them to the point that they not only become eviler, but also turned into a humanoid abomination of their former selves, deformations which only worsened had they further meddling into other Dark Arts at the same time. The more Horcruxes one created, the closer one was to true immortality. Creating one Horcrux gives one the ability to anchor one's own soul to the world of the living if the body was destroyed, giving them the chance to create a new body. Horcrux is the name given to an object containing part of a wizard's soul hidden by himself to gain immortality. ~ Lord Voldemort's ultimate goal involving the Horcruxes. And now, I was tested, and it appeared that one or more of my experiments had worked … for I had not been killed, though the curse should have done it. I, who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality.