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teddylupin · #41 (**permalink**) 08-04-2007, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Psyduck

One little technicality that no one seems to notice...
It's not 1/8 or 2/8.

If it were such a precise science, it would be one half of one
half of one half of one half of one half of one half (or 1/64).

I doubt, however, that this is such a precise science that
the soul is ripped cleanly in half with each murder.

Also, Voldemort murdered more than six people and split his soul in more ways than even he could count. Which portion of a shattered portion left him when he made a new horcrux, and which portions of what size remained?

It's not about math anymore. We don't have all the information we need to calculate. All we can know is that it was a very tiny portion of Voldemort's original soul.

I would think that the biggest shards would have been in the first horcruxes he made, which I gather were the diary and the ring.

A very good point you have made here, but the only hole I find in it is that even though the soul is torn when murder is commited, you don't neccesarily split your soul when you kill, that happens, or so I believe, as you make the actual Horcrux. Otherwise, for instance, anyway who had killed wouldn't have a complete soul, but I don't think that's neccesarily true, because then it would include Mrs. Weasley and quite a few other people. It's not just murder, it'd the next step of dark magic that created Voldemort as he is now.
Another thing is that when Dumbledore was explaining it to Harry he said Voldemort split is soul into 7 parts. We don't know if these pieces are of equal size or not, but I thought it could have been implied there (which is why there's all this 1/8 talk.)