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In [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince|''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'']], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry Potter]] learns how Horcruxes are created by experiencing a memory of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Horace Slughorn|Professor Slughorn]]'s in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]]'s [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Pensieve|Pensieve]]. In order to create a Horcrux, it is necessary that the wizard's soul be torn; the only known act that is powerful enough and damaging enough to do this is apparently for the wizard to commit murder. The torn soul fragment can then be removed and placed into another object; and so long as that object is not destroyed, the wizard can remain alive.
 
Harry learns at the same time that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Lord Voldemort]] had been intrigued by the possibility of the number seven, which would either mean that he intended to create seven horcruxesHorcruxes, or that he intended to have seven soul shards, which would mean six horcruxesHorcruxes. Dumbledore believes at the time, correctly as it turns out, that the intended number of Horcruxes is six. It is unknown at the end of ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' how successful Voldemort has been at creating Horcruxes, but we can assume that he did create six and secrete them in various objects. Two horcruxesHorcruxes have been destroyed – Tom Riddle's diary that Harry destroyed in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets|''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'']], and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marvolo Gaunt|Marvolo Gaunt]]'s ring which was destroyed by Professor Dumbledore. A third was apparently eliminated by an erstwhile Death Eater identified only as R.A.B., but this turns out in the seventh book to not have happened. To defeat the Dark Lord, Harry must find and destroy the remaining horcruxesHorcruxes and then kill Lord Voldemort.
 
Note that we do not list Horcruxes as having first appeared in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' because the diary is not identified as a Horcrux, by name or function, until ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince''.
 
Harry and Dumbledore deduce that the remaining horcruxesHorcruxes are quite possibly coveted heirlooms of the four Hogwarts House founders; they see how much Riddle covets the two that he has seen in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hepzibah Smith|Hepzibah Smith]]'s possession. One of these two, Salazar Slytherin's locket, was originally a Gaunt family heirloom; [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Merope Gaunt|Riddle's mother]] had sold it to Borgin and Burke for a pittance, to buy food, and they had sold it in turn to Hepzibah Smith. Riddle apparently stole it back from her and used it as a Horcrux. The other, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, has not been seen since Harry and Professor Dumbledore saw it in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 20|Hokey's memory]], but it evidently was also stolen by Riddle, and is presumed to have been made into a Horcrux.
 
== Analysis ==
 
It should not be overlooked that there is said to be a '''missing''' horcruxHorcrux in ''[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''. Both it and the unknown "R. A. B." (presumed to be [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Regulus Black|Regulus Black]]) are keys to the "real" locket's whereabouts. In ''[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Black Family|Black family]] house is being used surreptitiously as a headquarters for the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters#Order of the Phoenix|Order of the Phoenix]]. When [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black|Sirius]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Molly Weasley|Molly]] undertake to clean the house, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kreacher|Kreacher]] undermines this effort – he and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Walburga Black|Mrs. Black's]] screaming portrait. Listed among the objects being discarded is "a heavy locket that none of them could open." Upon Sirius' death, the house passed to Harry; Harry most likely will recall this locket and return to Grimmauld Place to retrieve it, probably without success. The locket may quite possibly have been hidden by Kreacher, or else stolen by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mundungus Fletcher|Mundungus Fletcher]], who was busily looting 12 Grimmauld Place during the early parts of ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince''; if the latter, Harry may need to travel to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Azkaban|Azkaban]] to interview Mundungus, who is currently serving time for impersonating an [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Inferius|Inferius]].
 
Also of note, Voldemort split his soul into seven parts. In many cultures and religions seven is a significant number.
 
== Questions ==
# Can a horcruxHorcrux be a living object? Could it be a liquid?
# How exactly are horcruxesHorcruxes created? Does the horcruxHorcrux have to be related to the victim of the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Avada Kedavra|Killing Curse]] cast by the sorceror creating the horcruxHorcrux?
 
== Greater Picture ==