Because the part of the soul inside the object exists on its own, it has the ability to affect the people surrounding it. The Horcruxes were recorded to affect the carriers immensely. This effect is mostly exhibited through the darker thoughts the carrier will experience.
This also affects the way they use magic. At one point it enabled the Trio to cast a Patronus. Given that the part of the soul still has some magical abilities it can also possess emotionally weaker people. This is what happened to Ginny Wesley during the events of the second movie.
If this happens the life span of the person will be severely decreased. To create a Horcrux you need to split your soul in order to have a part of the soul ready for storing into an object. The splitting of the soul can only be achieved through murder.
This act has to be intentional, as a non-deliberate murder will not separate the soul. The act of murder was deemed as the evilest act a wizard can commit. Once the act is committed, the soul will be severely damaged and at that point, the wizard needs to use a separating charm to remove the damaged part from the rest of the soul.
Not much is known about Horcruxes because wizards avoided any kind of Dar Arts. The first wizard who managed to create a Horcrux was Herpo the Foul. He was studying the soul and the ways in which murder affects it beyond the point of any other wizard thus far. The only other known wizard who successfully created a Horcruxes was Lord Voldemort. Once the Horcrux is created it will naturally inherent properties that will make them more durable. To enhance this effect the creator will usually pair the Horcrux charms or curses to ensure the most possible protection.
In order to destroy the Horcrux, it needs to be damaged beyond the point of any physical or magical reparation. When this happens the object will usually start oozing a dark liquid that resembles blood, or will release a scream. Once the Horcrux is destroyed the port of the soul in it will get destroyed as well.
The wizard will sense that the part was destroyed. This extremely dark magic may sound appealing; however, it does not come without consequences. Creating a Horcrux requires meddling with the soul which is affecting the Fundamental Laws of Magic. The darker your acts regarding your soul get the greater the consequences you receive will be. This law directly leads to the first consequences. Once the soul is split there is no chance of its reconciliation.
The most important part of this rule is the fact that the wizards who created a Horcrux will be forever trapped inside the Limbo and will be unable to return to the physical world as a ghost. Another consequence is dehumanization. It is usually not as prominent as it was with Lord Voldemort. It is uncertain if his most recognizable features, red eyes, and the nose, were the effect of the Horcruxes or if they appeared as a side effect of his resurrection.
The last side effect is best exhibited with Lord Voldemort. His own soul was so unstable that once he killed Lilly Potter it separated itself as latched onto Harry without him casting the spell. He initially wanted to create six of them because he believed in the magical power regarding the number seven. Because of this and his understanding that the soul can not be separated infinitely he refused to replace any destroyed Horcruxes.
However, due to his instability, he accidentally created another one when he tried to kill Harry Potter. It was hidden in the seaside cave, one of the most dangerous locations in Harry Potter , where he tortured fellow orphans as a child, turning them into the Inferi who infested the lake. Regulus Black later retrieved the locket after he defected from the Death Eaters.
No doubt, this was one of Voldemort's most essential Horcruxes since it once belonged to his favorite founder. Hepzibah Smith proved to be important in Voldemort creating not one but two of his seven Horcruxes. She claimed to be a descendent of Helga Hufflepuff and had a cup once owned by her. Helga Hufflepuff was not a founder whom Voldemort particularly related to, but she was a founder nonetheless, so he also took the cup and transformed it into a Horcrux.
It was later hidden in the vault of the Lestrange family. Bellatrix was not only evil and despicable but Voldemort's most loyal follower and utterly infatuated with him, so she was probably happy to keep it hidden even though he wouldn't tell her what it was.
Hermione destroyed it during the Battle of Hogwarts using the trusty Basilisk fang. Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem was said to make the wearer wiser. Jealous of her mother's power, Rowena's daughter Helena stole it and eventually hid it in the forests of Albania. The ghost of Helena was charmed by Tom Riddle, and she told him where to find the diadem, allowing him to travel to Albania to retrieve it. It became the last of the seven Horcruxes to come from the Hogwarts founders since Voldemort never got his hands on anything that belonged to Godric Gryffindor.
The diadem got destroyed by Fiendfyre, another substance capable of destroying Horcruxes, when the Room of Requirement caught fire at the Battle of Hogwarts — an accidentally heroic act from Crabbe of all people. For the whole of the book series, fans did not know very much about Nagini.
She was a snake that seemed deeply bonded with Voldemort and could communicate with him, thanks to him being a Parselmouth, and was one of Harry Potter 's most iconic creatures. Eventually, it was revealed that she was a Horcrux, and Neville Longbottom killed her with Godric Gryffindor's sword. However, Voldemort planned to create six Horcruxes in the hope that it would make him stronger than just creating one, due to his belief in the power of the number seven.
It was stated at one point that Voldemort had already "pushed his soul to the limit" [7] in creating his Horcruxes. This implied a finite number of Horcruxes any one person may create before the process became too dangerous to attempt again.
It also implied that the creation of a Horcrux used a set amount of soul and that this amount was the same every time the process was undertaken. Creating multiple Horcruxes rendered the soul unstable and liable to break apart if the creator of the Horcruxes was killed. Harry Potter destroying the diary Horcrux with a Basilisk fang unknowingly destroying one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
Destroying a Horcrux required that the object containing the soul fragment be damaged to a point beyond any and all physical or magical repair. When a Horcrux was damaged to that point, it may appear to "bleed" ink in the case of Tom Riddle's diary [9] and a "dark blood-like substance" in the case of Ravenclaw's Diadem [10] and a scream may be heard as the soul fragment perished.
However, as a safety measure to protect one's immortality and precious soul fragment, the creator would usually place powerful enchantments onto the artefact to prevent damage. It was unknown if the creator of the Horcrux would be able to sense that their soul fragment was destroyed, although Dumbledore stated that in the particular case of Voldemort, he would not feel their loss because his soul had been split too many times and had been in that state for too long.
All known methods of Horcrux destruction required the "receptacle" to be damaged beyond repair [4] which, in the case of living receptacles, meant that they must be killed. For example, methods were Fiendfyre as evidenced by the destruction of Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem , which required extreme skill to control, [10] the Killing Curse on living Horcruxes.
This was seen on Professor Quirrell when he was destroyed by Harry Potter's touch. This was only achievable as basilisk venom was an extremely destructive substance capable of destroying Horcruxes. Although beyond repair when exposed to this venom, living Horcruxes could potentially be saved through the speedy administration of phoenix tears , an extremely rare substance. Fawkes demonstrated this ability for Harry when he was bitten by the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets.
This was only achievable as goblin-wrought silver is a destructive enough metal capable of absorbing qualities that strengthen it. The sword demonstrated this ability for Harry Potter when he used it to slay the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets. Because it was made of goblin-wrought silver itself, the sword was imbued with basilisk venom and became capable of destroying Horcruxes. The main purpose and power of a Horcrux was to anchor the creator to the mortal realm for the sake of achieving immortality.
As long as at least one Horcrux existed, the creator's soul would be bound to the world of the living. Hence, if the body was destroyed, the soul would remain as a lingering spirit instead of passing through to the other side.
Though being in such a state of existence was what very few would prefer over death, the soul could possess others to regain physical form, which shortened the host's lifespan drastically. The fragment of a person's soul within a Horcrux was capable of thinking for itself and had certain magical abilities, including the ability to influence those in their vicinity and affect them mentally.
When Harry, Ron, and Hermione were carrying Salazar Slytherin's locket around their necks in , it brought out the worst in the trio by making them moodier, more prone to fighting, and slowly darker aspects of them began to appear, especially Ron as he carried the locket much longer than his friends.
They were also unable to summon their Patronuses while wearing the locket since the soul fragment inside was darkening their thoughts. A person with an affinity for the Dark Arts , on the other hand, would be strengthened by the influence of a Horcrux, as Dolores Umbridge was when wearing Salazar Slytherin's locket. The diary Horcrux takes possession of Ginny Weasley. If a person was more emotionally vulnerable, it was possible for the soul inside the Horcrux to take control of him or her, as Ginny Weasley using her.
In fact, Voldemort took advantage of this possessive power over Ginny to reopen the Chamber of Secrets, using the diary as a weapon rather than a safeguard. This quasi-sentient entity that was capable of sapping life-force to create a physical form differed from a "mere memory ", which the diary's manifestation claimed itself to be, as no mere charmed object could achieve such a feat, though Lucius Malfoy thought that was what the diary simply was.
In this way, a Horcrux could gradually feed on another person's life or negative emotions to strengthen itself and increase the ability of the soul fragment within to act independently in the physical world. The best example of this was in the case of Tom Riddle's diary. For decades, the diary lay dormant in Lucius Malfoy 's possession, doing nothing other than safeguarding the soul fragment of Tom Riddle.
When Ginny Weasley began to transcribe her fears and insecurities into the pages of the diary, the fragment of Tom Riddle's soul contained within was not only able to write back to Ginny but eventually drained enough life out of her to actually manifest itself in a semi-corporeal form and work magic with Harry Potter 's wand. While she wore the locket Horcrux, the evil Dolores Umbridge grew stronger.
Likewise, Salazar Slytherin's locket slowly gained power when it was in the possession of Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the months prior to its destruction. It can be theorised that the locket gained somewhat less power from them not enough for Riddle to fully manifest but still enough to speak and create illusions because Harry, Ron, and Hermione were actively resisting the locket's influence instead of embracing it as Ginny had done with the diary.
Even Slytherin's locket was fairly inert when it was initially discovered in a cabinet in the drawing-room at 12 Grimmauld Place. It displayed no powers and gave no indication that it possessed superior magical properties.
Horcruxes also possessed some last line of defence against destruction. The fragment of soul within the Horcrux seems to be able to sense impending threats and can act to defend itself. For instance, Slytherin's locket viciously taunted Ron Weasley with visions of his deepest fears in the hopes of preventing him from stabbing it with Godric Gryffindor's sword , and even attempted to strangle Harry Potter when he was close to obtaining the Sword with the intent of piercing the locket.
Aside from its self-defence mechanism from the soul fragment, a Horcrux is usually enchanted by the creator to have other forms of defences to prevent destruction.
Marvolo Gaunt's ring contained a deadly curse that would kill anyone who touched it. To create a Horcrux was to divide one's soul — the " essence of self " — and it was therefore in the creation of a Horcrux that one fell prey to Adalbert Waffling 's first Fundamental Laws of Magic , which essentially stated that tampering with one's soul inevitably resulted in grave side effects.
Creating Horcruxes was considered perhaps the most dreadful act possible. One of these such side-effects was the "dehumanising" effect the mutilation of one's soul was said to have.
The more Horcruxes one created, the less human they became, both emotionally and physically; for example, in the house-elf Hokey 's memory, Tom Riddle was initially shown to be hollow-cheeked but otherwise normal, [23] though ten years later his features look as if they have been burned and blurred, and his skin was extremely white.
Lord Voldemort after his transformation. One should note that it is unclear whether the red eyes and slit-like nostrils that Voldemort had after he was reborn were caused by having more Horcruxes than he did than when he applied for the Defence Against the Dark Arts post a second time, [23] whether they were characteristics of a person who had been resurrected with the help of serpents which had continued to play key roles in his revival , or whether due to any other alterations he had made to himself.
Dumbledore speculated that Voldemort underwent other dangerous transformations, as well as creating Horcruxes which resulted in Voldemort's hideous appearance. A third side effect of Horcrux creation was that the master soul itself became unstable even with creating just one Horcrux. For example, the creation of Voldemort's sixth "Horcrux" of seven — Harry Potter — is known to be the direct result of this. The rest of Voldemort's mutilated soul fled. After mangling his own soul through many Horcrux creations, the fragments of Voldemort are trapped in limbo for eternity.
The final known side-effect of Horcrux creation was a possible inability to move on from limbo after death. This was seen when Voldemort's Killing Curse destroyed the part of his soul that resided in Harry Potter. This broken and mangled piece of soul [25] was forced to exist in the stunted form of a flayed and mutilated baby that Harry saw in King's Cross during his visit to limbo, unable to return to the land of the living as a ghost, and unable to move on to the afterlife because his soul was maimed and corrupted.
The same fate was implied to have been suffered by Voldemort's "main" soul piece, the one that inhabited his body; it is unknown if this was a standard fate meted out for all Horcrux creators, or if it was unique to Voldemort due to the number of his Horcruxes. Regardless, reconciliation apparently cannot occur after death, as the soul's state at death remains forever, so the greatest of all consequences incurred by Horcrux creation may be the possibility of eternal limbo of the soul.
Voldemort's soul fragments also appeared to possess only the awareness and intelligence of the infant they appeared to be. Lord Voldemort , obsessed with immortality and unable or unwilling to understand the importance of the soul's well-being, went further than any wizard known to history, creating seven — although he wanted six Horcruxes to have a seven part soul.
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