Soul Purpose

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While driving home from the beach last weekend, my wife and I started discussing Voldemort’s horcruxes (as you do) and we were talking about whether the different horcruxes had different abilities. For example, could all of them potentially make a new, living Voldemort, the way that Tom Riddle’s diary almost became fully corporeal when it was draining the life from Ginny? 

My wife contended that not all the horcruxes had that ability, and the reason that the diary could do that was because it was the memory of Tom Riddle, and was simply bringing that memory to life. That statement led to a fascinating idea… 

Each horcrux represents a specific piece of Voldemort’s soul that he wanted to tear away from himself 

Now you might be thinking, “That’s nothing new. We’ve known that each horcrux was a piece of Voldemort’s soul since book 6.” But what I’m saying is that the horcruxes weren’t just random pieces of his soul. They were specific pieces. 

Or to be more precise, these specific pieces: 

• Gaunt’s Ring – His history 
  
• Riddle’s Diary – His identity  
• Slytherin’s Locket – His fears 
• Ravenclaw’s Diadem – His doubts 
• Hufflepuff’s Cup – His pleasures 
• Nagini – His humanity 
• Harry Potter – His purpose 

Have you ever wondered why Voldemort went to the trouble to create six horcruxes intentionally? (Plus one on accident.) I mean, just one horcrux could have kept him from dying as long as he kept it safe. Why would anyone intentionally tear off SIX pieces of their own soul? Unless they were pieces that you didn’t want anyway… 

I believe all of these horcruxes, with the exception of Harry, were meant to contain aspects of Voldemort that he believed were holding him back from achieving his fullest potential and fulfilling his destiny. And that tearing off those pieces not only drastically altered who Voldemort was, but each piece defined what that horcrux could do, and how things changed once each one was destroyed. 

To support this theory, let’s look at each horcrux in detail… 

(This gets pretty long, and includes lots of spoilers for anyone who hasn’t finished all the books yet, so I’m going to put the rest of the post under a link.) 

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