Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Horcrux

Wrong
"...that there were originally intended to be seven Horcruxes, thus giving Voldemort seven extra pieces of his soul."

This is wrong. If Voldemort did this, then there would be eight pieces to his soul, not seven. I'm going to change it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jammi568 (discuss • contribs), 5 April 2007


 * Actually, we don't know. What Tom says is, "What I don't understand, though – just out of curiosity – I mean, would one Horcrux be much use? Can you only split your soul once? Wouldn't it be better, make you stronger, to have your soul in more pieces? I mean, for instance, isn't seven the most powerfully magic number, wouldn't seven—?" Slughorn then says how bad it would be to rip the soul into seven pieces, but we don't know if Tom's intent is to rip his soul into seven or to tear off seven shards and secrete them. All we really know is that the number seven has been suggested, and we know of five places where Horcruxes likely are or were: the diary, the signet, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Salazar Slytherin's locket, and Nagini. Chazz (talk) 00:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Out of date analysis
While i don't think deleting it outright is an option (that's why i merely commented it out), i believe we can't show it as-is. The whole thing needs a bit of a re-write, but i can't do that right now. -- Jokes Free4Me (talk) 18:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)