what's a horcrux I'm confused?

Question

This is hurting my brain.Please help.

Answer 1

A horcrux is an object in which a dark wizard has hidden a part of his soul for the purposes of attaining immortality.

Answer 2

If you're talking about Harry Potter, a Horcrux contains part of a person's soul and it is created through murder. A horcrux can help a person come back to life even after he was killed. It was mentioned in the 6th book that Voldemort made 6 horcruxes because he was so obsessed with being immortal. This made his soul really unstable (because splitting your soul into 2 is bad enough) which was why he unkowingly created another horcrux when he tried to murder Harry when he was still a baby because part of his soul attached itself to Harry.

Answer 3

A Horcrux is a thing which a soul is encased in.

It is created by doing the most evil in the world: killing. After killing the victim, one must say an incantation (though we do not speak of it) to encase the soul in a chosen object. If the owner of the soul 'dies', the owner can resurrect because the piece of soul inside the Horcrux is safe.

A Horcrux can only be destroyed by putting it beyond magicial repair, which takes very magically powerful substances to do, example: Basilisk Venom, Fiendfyre, (and if the Horcrux is a living thing,) and the Avada Kedavra Curse.

The only way for the owner to recombine with the piece of soul is to feel remorse. Remorse for what he did, who he killed, etc. However, this remorse can tear the mind apart, thus causing death.

Answer 4

A horcrux is any object (book, crown, ring, sword, an animal, a person - anything!) which a wizard can impart a piece of his soul. The spell used to do this must be accompanied by a murder of an important person, which makes the horcrux magic spell particularly vile.

You-know-who split his soul into seven objects turning them into horcruxes, which meant seven murders, with the last section of soul remaining in his body. Therefore you-know-who could not be killed while his soul was safely hidden in seven different objects. One of the last objects holding a piece of the Dark Lord's soul was Harry Potter himself. Harry Potter was a horcrux! Since the heroes manage to destroy all of the horcruxes, in order for you-know-who to die, the last horcrux HAD to be destroyed - that was why Harry had to die.

BUT it wasn't actually Harry Potter destroyed, it was the piece of Voldermort's own soul inside Harry Potter that actually died, Harry came back around and was able to destroy Voldermort. Completing the prophecy.

The 'hallows' were just three magical objects. So a hallow and a horcrux were two different things.

Answer 5

In harry potter, a horcrux is an object of which you can seal part of your soul. But in order to protect your soul in an object, you first have to break it in half. You can only break your soul but committing murder and feeling no remorse. When you split your soul after the murder, you find an object and say a spell and half of your soul goes into that object. Thus, you cannot be killed because your soul still resides an object away from your body. So Voldemort had many horcruxes so thats why he didn't die when his curse rebounded off of harry when he tried to kill harry when harry was a 1 year old. Voldemort had broken his soul into many pieces and put those parts into objects to keep safe. He couldn't die as long as those objects were still safe. But you can break a horcrux. You have to break it beyond magical repair. And when you do break a horcrux that part of the soul dies. When all the horcruxes are destroyed, that person is mortal again and can be killed.

Answer 6

In book 6 of Harry Potter, Dumbledore and Harry figure out that Voldemort split his soul into 7 ways [a cup, tiara, locket, ring, diary, a piece of Harry, and a snake: nagini] that way if someone killed one of the horcruxes, HE would still be alive and until someone managed to track down all 6 horcruxes, there would be no way that he could die. So in book 7, Harry goes on a journey to find the other 5 horcruxes so that he could finally kill Voldemort

Hope that helps

Answer 7

A horcrux is a person or object embedded with a piece of another person's soul. To create a horcrux one must commit murder of an innocent. This rends the soul of the murderer into two pieces. One piece remains with the murderer while the other piece joins with an object or person meant to hold the soul.

When the horcrux is destroyed by a pure magical force or object, the piece of soul within it dies and does not rejoin the murderer. This eventually weakens the murderer's soul.

Voldemort had seven horcruxi (my plural for it):

1. Tom Marvolo Riddle's Diary
2. Salazar Slytherin's Locket
3. Helga Hufflepuff's Cup
4. Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem
5. Gaunt's Ring
6. Nagini
7. Harry Potter

Answer 8

In the Harry Potter books, a horcrux (plural horcruxes) is a particularly nasty bit of dark magic.

First, the wizard must rend his/her soul. The most likely way to tear one's soul is to commit murder. A particular spell is cast, which imprisons the piece of the caster's soul in an object of their choosing.

As long as the object is not destroyed, the caster can not be killed. They would live a pathetic exhistance, barely alive, as we see in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. But they ARE alive.

The horcrux can carry part of the caster's consciousness as well, influencing those who are very close to the horcrux. (as we see in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).

Creating a horcrux is a way of becoming immortal. Lord Voldemort claims to have gone farther along the road to immortality than any other wizard who has ever lived.

Answer 9

A horcrux is a being or object (typically object) into which a dark witch or wizrd places a portion of their soul so as to gain a measure of immortality. When a dark witch or wizard kills they tear their soul into pieces. They can then take one of these pieces and stuff it into the horcrux. However, making a horcrux is dangerous as it destabilizes the rest of the soul. And making more than one destabilizes the soul so much that the dark witch or wizard can make an unintentional horcux if something goes wrong and their physical body is destroyed.

Answer 10

ok, well if it is Harry Potter that you are talking about, a Horcrux, is a part of a soul. Lord Voldemort, created 6 of them when he was sposed to create 7, but what they are is peices of his soul. and Harry's job, is to destroy them so in the means its destroying part of Voldemort's soul. so a horcrux is a piece of soul.

hope this helped you