If someone made a Horcrux, and then decided that immortality wasn't for them.... could they destroy the horcrux and live out a normal life, or would destroying the horcrux result in death? Thoughts?

 

Yes... but would they be affected by only having part of their soul in their body? What would visible / internal effects be?

 

There's nothing to say that the Horcrux can't be deactivated rather than destroyed...why live with half a soul when you can get the whole soul back?

 

It may be maimed but it would still have the basic shape right, like an old jigsaw puzzle. Could happen.

 

No, i dont think so. that would imply that the soul is a static thing that never changes. I dont really agree with that; the soul is supposedly something that grows as you do, so while you may be able to 'refit' the old piece back into the original part shortly after, after more time passes it would be increasingly less possible. Also--if the soul is placed in another sentient being, like nagini, it wouldnt be unreasonable to expect that the original soul of the snake and the piece would eventually fuse into one soul.

~DarkSov~

 

It seems to me that if you sever your soul, that shit is for good.

It's not like in Terminator II when the guy got frozen and blown to bits and then melted back together again. You perform a spell to strip a peice of your mortality away to make yourself as immortal as possible and it stays that way. That's why making Horcrux's, IMO, is so unspeakable. You have to murder people and you murder people in order to devide yourself into peices.

Destroying the Horcrux obviously destroys the peice of soul, and I never saw anything that said you could suck the soul back out and stick it back in your body.

 

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It may be maimed but it would still have the basic shape right, like an old jigsaw puzzle.

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You just need some magical duck tape.

 

Eh... thanks for the thoughts. I'm bouncing an idea or few around in my head for a fic, and tryng to work out how to play a certain angle.

 

I suppose that what I'm wondering is how much the creation of a horcrux affects an individual. You split your soul in half... does it change your appearance drastically? Are there noticable personality changes? I guess I'm trying to see what the difference is between the person pre-creation of horcrux and after, as well as the difference between the person pre-destruction of the horcrux and after.

Obviously, splitting his soul 7 ways hasn't changed Voldemort's intelligence or duelling prowress... so how did it change him? What does the lack of a full soul do? He was already a twisted fuck before horcrux creation... Do they do anything except make you immortal?

 

It's possible that it made him into an even more twisted fuck. Perhaps each part of his soul that he severed was a part he viewed as a weakness (Love, Compasion, Trust, etc.). It is apparent that creating horcruxes does reflect physically. As we viewed Dumbledore's memories of Tom's progression into Voldemort, Tom was becoming more and more snake-like in appearance, to the point that he isn't even recognizable. I doubt that it had any effect on his intelligence, but I know that there are people on this site who disagree with me.

 

I think splitting his soul probably only changed his appearance. It made him less human-looking and more...snake-face with red eyes, you know the description. I think that's probably it aside from making him more immortal.

 

You can't assume that it was the soul splitting that made him look that way. He's a Dark Lord who probably went through hundreds of rituals to increase his strengths. It's possible any number of things could have warped his appearance.

 

It may just be my mind making shit up, but I could've sworn I read in the books that he ended up looking like that because of the Horcruxes. But whatever--I'm too lazy to try and find it.

I think the point I was trying to make is that it could be interpreted any way. So I guess in my fic, I would say it was the Horcrux making that did it. And in your fic, you'd say...what you just said. Yes.

 

Dumbledore did imply that the Horcruxes warped his appearance, but it never outs and says it.