How Do You Destroy A Horcrux?, Methods and means... |
 Aug 1 2006, 06:55 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup  Posts: 36 Joined: 12:38am July 5, 2006 Location: In the Hogwarts lake, swimming with the mermaids  |
It seems like a soul is definately more spiritual than physical. For a while I thought that someone's soul contains their personality. But that's probably wrong, as Voldemort's personality has not gone through any drastic changes since the time before he made any horcruxes. The soul is what makes a person human, which is why Voldemort does not look entirely like a person anymore. I guess that would make him less than natural... But I really don't have any other ideas for what a soul is.
I think that when you make a horcrux, you have to have a certain state of mind. You have to have evil or dark intentions. And on top of that, you have to perform several complex spells. To destroy a horcrux, most likely, you would need to kill the object like you would kill a person. Harry put basilisk venom into the diary and that destroyed it. Depending on the object the soul is stored in, you might even be able to destroy it by smashing it with a hammer... possibly. But people who are willing to go to the lengths to make a horcrux are going to go to great lengths to protect the horcrux and put spells and curses on or around it. From the conversation Dumbledore had with Harry about the horcruxes, it sounds like you can make any object into a horcrux. Voldemort just chose to put his soul into valuable objects. We don't know if when your soul is split, a piece of it leaves your body. But if that is the case, it would need to be encased in an object so it 's not just flying around somewhere. You might lose it. 
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