Horcruxes are pieces of a wizard's soul that allow them to live on even after their physical body is destroyed, making them effectively immortal. Creating a Horcrux requires committing an act so heinous that it tears apart the creator's soul, usually through cold-blooded murder.
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 dared touch it.
Why didn't Dumbledore just tell Harry how to destroy the Horcruxes?
Dumbledore Never Really Had Time To Explain How To Destroy The Horcruxes. As much as Harry would have benefited from Dumbledore's knowledge of how to destroy the remaining five horcruxes, there was simply not enough time before his death to do so.
Can Voldemort be killed without destroying the Horcruxes?
He needs Voldemort alive to destroy the 7th Horcrux (Harry). Nobody else can do it. Without Voldemort alive to kill Harry, Voldemort can never be killed.
The books explain it well, mutilating one's soul is something that debilitates the body and soul of those who create Horcruxs, making too many is dangerous which is why Voldemort didn't make others, which is why over time he becomes less human but more similar to a snake.
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Why didn't Voldemort use Avada Kedavra on Snape?
Voldemort didn't use Avada Kedavra on Snape because he didn't want to kill one of his most trusted Death Eaters. At the very least, Snape survives long enough to have one last meaningful interaction with Harry, ensuring he understands his loyalty to Lily and Dumbledore.
Yeah. There were 8 horcruxes. 7 were made by Voldemort intentionally ( Nagini, goblet, diary, locket, ring, diadem and the part of his soul in Voldemort himself) and 1 was made accidentally which was Harry.
On his quest to reach immortality, Lord Voldemort created horcruxes, but he didn't know he accidentally created a seventh: Harry Potter. In 1997, readers were introduced to the Wizarding World in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first novel in what would become a series of seven books.
Family. Snape's family background is mostly shown in flashbacks during the course of the last three novels. Snape was born to Eileen Prince, a witch, and Tobias Snape, a Muggle, making him a half-blood (hence the name, "Half-Blood Prince").
Dumbledore knew about Horcruxes. He knew how they were formed, what happened after that, etc. He probably got to know Harry was a Horcrux when he saw the Scar on Harry's forehead, but maybe he wasn't sure.
A replica of Sword of Gryffindor was created or acquired by Albus Dumbledore sometime prior to 1997. This replica was placed in the case normally holding the real sword, so that the real one could eventually be given to Harry Potter to assist his search for Voldemort's Horcruxes.
But Harry didn't die, and the reason is rather simple: when Voldemort cast the killing curse, it only killed the piece of his soul within Harry, not Harry himself. Harry then saw Dumbledore in a version of King's Cross station, something that Dumbledore said was probably happening in his head.
Ron never cast any kind of curse on Nagini, not in the book anyways. And there's no confirmation that the spell he used on her in the movies was the Killing Curse. Avada Kedavra isn't the only spell that creates green light, after all.
Partly because he's a reasonable person, and doesn't aim to kill. Also, he may have not been physically able to do so. [ professor moody said that the most they could do to him was give him a nosebleed] and, voldemort has the horcruxes, so he wouldn't have been able even if he could produce an avada kedavra curse.
But the whole thing was a misunderstanding. No, Sirius Black was not involved in any horcrux business. It seems no one but Snape and Dumbledore were aware of this fact.
This would bring him into conflict with fanatical Death Eaters like Bellatrix Lestrange later in life, but Snape was almost immediately forgiven by the reborn Voldemort, because he could provide him with thirteen years of information on Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix.
IT was when Harry and Hermione were on their own without Ron, and were hunting for the Horcruxes, its when Harry used to wake up with terrible headaches in themiddles of the night screaming sometimes. Hermione's research into Horcruxes at that time concluded Harry was Voldermot's Horcrux.
Effect. Unforgivable Curses are the three most powerful and sinister spells known to the wizarding world, and are tools of the Dark Arts. They were first classified as "Unforgivable" in 1717. They are the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra, the Cruciatus Curse, Crucio, and the Imperius Curse, Imperio.
The Killing Curse was created in the early Middle Ages by Dark witches and wizards. Primarily, the curse was used to quickly slay opponents during a duel. In 1707, the Wizards' Council was restructured into the Ministry of Magic, which allowed for more strict restrictions on certain types of magic.
Nagini is the last Horcrux that Voldemort created and the last one to be destroyed. During the final battle of Hogwarts, Neville pulls the sword of Godric Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and beheads Nagini, destroying the last Horcrux.
"It certainly seems so." So that night seems like the moment where he realized Harry was a horcrux, and by the time he told Harry that Voldemort transferred some of his powers he already realized what happened. The gears in his head were turning through that whole conversation.
Harry was able to acquire the diadem, but was saved the trouble of having to destroy it, since the Fiendfyre had accidentally incinerated it. The diadem crumbled to pieces in his hands upon their escape from the Room of Requirement.
