I'm not sure if it was discussed in canon but I know for sure many fanfics have discussed it: At what point does splitting your soul again kill or permanently incapacitate you? It seems clear that making more horcruxes makes you less human, but what point do people think (if it's possible at all) do you become so inhuman you can no longer think, perform magic or even exist?

I'm toying with a plot point idea where after discovering some or all of his horcruxes are destroyed prompts Voldermort to make more. This leads to Voldemort making more which eventually kills him. I'm not sure it will make a good story as it's an unfulfilling ending but I find the concept interesting.

Given the concept of magical numbers I'm wanting to guess thirteen parts to kill yourself or drive yourself so mad you become a shell.

 

I am not sure it does. Tom has 1/7 of a soul toward the end. Splitting your soul makes you less human each time you do it and rejoining the soul will kill you. The real disadvantage is after you die. When Harry was in the train station after being hit with the killing curse in the forest. That grotesque little monster was 1/7 of Toms soul.

 

Legend certainly has a part of what I would say, because each time you too your soul apart (8-9 for cold right? Because of the one in Harry and the one in his body?) You hurt yourself. I mean, I don't think at the end he realy was human. Able o preform magic, think and feel... but human, no.

 

If my memory doesn't fail me, it was stated in DH that Voldemort had already pushed his soul to its limits, so seven is probably it. Anymore and the damage is irreparable.

 

If you take the "soul split into pieces" approach, then Voldemort had 1/8 of his soul. Six horcruxes, himself and Harry.

 

No, if you're halving your soul each time he had 1/(2^8) of a soul or 1/256 of a soul.

 

Sounds about right

 

Wasn't it suggested that making more than one was unheard of though? if it was unheard of there must be a reason why no one else tried it.

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Also, if the size of each part is random you'll most probably end up with less than 1/8th of a soul. Assuming the odds of each percentage are the same, you'd be looking at only 20% odds the first time that you would keep 7/8th or more of your soul. Each attempt would increase the odds but they're still not on your side.

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Also again, the soul must be quantifiable in some way give that making horcruxes made Voldemort less human each time.

 

You're treating the soul as if it's Mana Points in an RPG. The argument against magical cores is applicable here.

 

"I, who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality...."

It's implied that Voldemort is probably the only one to push the bounds of what is possibly with horcruxes. I think it can be inferred that there is some finite amount of horcruxes. We know that the process left Voldemort looking less and less human over the years, what more horcruxes would do can only be speculated. We also know that >6 left his soul "unstable" enough that he made an accidental horcrux out of Harry. Whatever the limit is, I think Voldemort was close to it.

 

Yeah, took a look at DH and it's mentioned that Hermione, at some point, said that Voldemort had already pushed his soul to its limit. Since she is pretty much the author's SI, I think we can take her word for it.

 

Except for the fact it's clear in canon making many horcruxes changes you.

And no you haven't done anything justify souls and magic being the same or of the same nature.

 

The fact that Voldemort didn't try to make more after realizing that Harry had tracked his horcrux implies that he couldn't. Making horcrux requires splitting of the soul which means that the soul is a quantifiable entity in Potterverse. That being said I don't think anywhere in canon it is implicitly stated that the soul splits in half every time one makes a horcrux.

 

I don't know if making even more Horcruxes than Voldemort would kill you (I mean, the entire point of Horcruxes is to prevent you from dying in the first place...), but what you'd end up with would probably make death look like a vacation.

 

Nowhere did I imply that subscribe to the mathematical interpretation of horcruxes and even if I did, I didn't say anything about halving the soul each time.

My personal interpretation is that a horcrux is a sort of copy of the original soul at the moment of creation.

 

But you admit damage is done. The question is does that damage eventually reach a point where is does more than disfigure your or (potentially - I'm not sure if it was canon) drive you to be hyper-paranoid and insane? If that damage could do that then eventually you might react the point of being non-functional.

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You said he had 1/8th of a soul, that's subscribing to a mathematical interpretation of it.

 

When you make enough to piss off Harry Potter.
That's when it kills you.

It's funny, really, how having fewer mortal enemies makes it more likely you'll not be killed.
Killed by those enemies.

 

Unless you kill them all, of course.