HP and the Deathly Hallows..?

Question

i have 2 questions today..?

okay so on the cover of deathly hallows that thing is Voldemort...? when i 1st got the book i didn't really look at it but then once i did i thought it was him... is it?

i don't understand the horcruxes....
okay so how many where there and what were they

yes i've read the 6th book, there is the locket diary snake diadem ring/stone cup and harry... the thing is i don't understand how harry is one... dumbledore often confuses me when he explains things to harry

Answer 1

Yeah, it's Voldemort.

Okay, the horcruxes are kind of confusing at first, but I'll try to explain it well.

When you create a Horcrux, you are tearing off a piece of your soul and placing it in an object. That way, if you are every killed, you cannot actually die unless someone also destroys the object you made a Horcrux. So, Harry and the others had to destroy all of Voldemort's Horcruxes before they they attempted to defeat him, because otherwise, he would just keep coming back again and again.

To create a Horcrux, you have to murder someone (because murdering a person is damaging to your soul). Voldemort was very superstitious about numbers, so he split his soul into seven pieces. He kept one, and put the rest in separate objects. These objects were:

- Tom Riddle's Diary
- Marvolo Gaunt's Ring
- Helga Hufflepuff's Cup
- A locket that belonged to Salazar Slytherin
- Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem (crown/tiara)
- Nagini (Voldemort's snake)

Later, Voldemort accidentally created another Horcrux in Harry, when he first tried to kill Harry as a baby.

There is a lot of interesting stuff in the Wikipedia article about Horcruxes, you should take a look at it.

Oops, looks like some other people answered in the time it took. Hope I helped anyway!!

Answer 2

Okay Dee, yes, you're right the back cover depicts Lord Voldemort. It was that scene at the Great Hall, that moment when the spells collided and Harry disarmed him. Harry was reaching for the Elder Wand (though his other hand should have been carrying Malfoy's).

Horcruxes are objects bewitched with very dark magic where you put a part of your soul into. I said very dark magic because in order to create a Horcrux, it requires the ultimate evil act which is murder. It could be anything but since Lord Voldemort's sense of grandeur, he chose objects with historical magical value. He intentionally made 6 horcruxes, thus dividing his soul into 7 pieces because the last bit stayed in his physical body. They were Tom Riddle's diary (destroyed by Harry with the Basilisk's fang), Marvolo Gaunt's ring (destroyed by Dumbledore with Gryffndor's sword), Slytherin's locket (destroyed by Ron with the sword), Hufflepuff's cup (destroyed by Hermione with a Basilisk's fang), Ravenclaw's diadem (destroyed by the fiend fire) and Nagini the snake (killed by Neville using the sword).

However when his Killing Curse rebounded that night in Godric's Hollow, the force was so great that his already unstable soul shattered and a piece lodged itself into Harry making him the 7th (unintentional) horcrux.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

That Is Voldemort on the cover of the 7th book. He has become almost snakelike in appearance.

Voldemort tried to achieve immortality by splitting his soul and stashing the fragments in different safe places. In the story, as long as a piece of his soul remained Earthbound, he could never finally "die"-- he would always have a way to return to the living world.

The first horcrux was the diary at the heart of the story of "Chamber of Secrets". Harry didn't even know it was a horcrux when he desroyed it...

The snake, Nagini, holds a second bit of Voldemort's soul.

There was a ring Voldemort stole from his inbred and insane Grandfather that held a third piece of his soul. Dumbledore destroyed that one before the story of "Half-Blood Prince"

There is a locket that Harry and Dumbledore "tried" to recover, but failed. It figures in the 7th book....

There is a fifth and sixth horcrux, (one related to the Ravenclaw family and one related to Hufflepuff...)

There is a final horcrux that might surprise you, or it might not. I won't spoil it here..

Answer 4

Unless I am mistaken - I believe it is Voldemort and Harry on the U.S. cover. Both reaching out for (what I now believe) is the Elder Wand.

There were seven horcruxes. Again, unless I am mistaken, Voldemort was always looking for ways to become immortal - spliting your soul and placing it in individual objects was one way to remain immortal. That is why Harry was sent off to destroy them - even though he only destroyed one and others destroyed the remaining ones. In order to properly "finish off" Voldemort - all of the horcruxes had to be destroyed.

Hope this has helped some. I know - the horcruxes is a complicated thing - it will be hard to portray in the movies and not have the audience (who do not read the books) become completely confused.

Answer 5

im not quite sure what the thing on the cover is
For the Horcruxes
There were 7 horcruxes, which means voldemorts soul was divided into 8 parts (he only intented to have 6 horcruxes, but accidentaly made harry one)
horcruxes are
-tom riddles diary
-Marvolo Gaunts Ring
-The Hufflepuff Cup
-Slytherins Locket
-Ravenclaws Diadem
-Harry Potter
-Nagini
Hope i Helped

Answer 6

there were 7 and on the cover it is voldomort
did you read the 6th book because you would have to have to have read that to get it

Answer 7

that is what i thought