Voldy's Clone Army
I've got a question...
We learned in HBP that Voldemort split his soul into six horcruxed pieces before he attempted to kill Harry (and planning to make the seventh in the process): 5 went into different objects, one remained inside his own body (and maybe the seventh created the infamous Harcrux, but this is not relevant to my question).
So, Voldemort tries to kill Harry, the killing curse rebounds, the following happens:
I was ripped from my body, less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still I was alive. What I was, even I do not know ... (GOF, p. 708, British edition)
In HBP, Dumbledore tells Harry that Voldemort did not die because he stored pieces of his soul in Horcruxes, which, as I understood it, link him to this world, to life.
The question is: is there a difference between the soul-bit Voldemort carried in his body, and around which his new body was constructed, and the soul-bits in his Horcruxes?
Wouldn't it be logical that, if Voldemort's body is destroyed, the one soul bit that was inside it would be destroyed also? And if it isn't destroyed, what happens to a soul-bit once a Horcrux is destroyed? Does it float around, possessing animals, like the Voldemort-bit? Could there be seven Voldemorts running around if someone tried to build bodies around them?
I think the point is that the main part of Voldemort's soul stayed in his body, and that it has something the other bits don't have (like a conciousness or something); the Horcrux-bits are just like "anchors" which hold the main soul in the world.
What do you think?
We learned in HBP that Voldemort split his soul into six horcruxed pieces before he attempted to kill Harry (and planning to make the seventh in the process): 5 went into different objects, one remained inside his own body (and maybe the seventh created the infamous Harcrux, but this is not relevant to my question).
So, Voldemort tries to kill Harry, the killing curse rebounds, the following happens:
I was ripped from my body, less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost ... but still I was alive. What I was, even I do not know ... (GOF, p. 708, British edition)
In HBP, Dumbledore tells Harry that Voldemort did not die because he stored pieces of his soul in Horcruxes, which, as I understood it, link him to this world, to life.
The question is: is there a difference between the soul-bit Voldemort carried in his body, and around which his new body was constructed, and the soul-bits in his Horcruxes?
Wouldn't it be logical that, if Voldemort's body is destroyed, the one soul bit that was inside it would be destroyed also? And if it isn't destroyed, what happens to a soul-bit once a Horcrux is destroyed? Does it float around, possessing animals, like the Voldemort-bit? Could there be seven Voldemorts running around if someone tried to build bodies around them?
I think the point is that the main part of Voldemort's soul stayed in his body, and that it has something the other bits don't have (like a conciousness or something); the Horcrux-bits are just like "anchors" which hold the main soul in the world.
What do you think?