Are there 7 horcruxes

So when were they all destroyed, in which movie and by whom? And does the total add up to 8? The Horcrux hunt was a mission given to Harry Potter in June of to find all of Lord Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes and destroy them. The mission fell to Harry Potter to complete. They eventually destroyed all of the Horcruxes by 2 May I hope harrypotter. According to Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort created seven horcruxes. Throughout the books and movies, five out of the seven that he created had been destroyed.

Harry Potter was an accidental horcrux. According to Dumbledore seven horcrux were created before the killing of Harry Potter's parents, so Harry would have been the 8th horcrux. The snake was a horcrux at a later time seeing how the snake never existed during the time that the first horcruxes were created. Dumbledore said that there was one horcrux in each house of Hogwarts. The horcrux related to the house of Gryffindor was never found.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Harry Potter an the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. That was all of Voldemort's Horcruxes but there is still the eighth part of his soul that lives inside him. Lord Voldemort's killing curse backfired because the wand was being used against its true master Harry Potter , after Harry disarmed Draco Malfoy in the book Half-Blood Prince.

Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Blog What are the 7 Horcruxes in order? Ben Davis March 20, What are the 7 Horcruxes in order?

One of the main ways Voldemort is sickeningly evil is the fact he split his soul into seven pieces, those being the seven Horcruxes, achieved through spellwork, murder, and unspeakable acts. Voldemort's seven Horcruxes send Harry, Hermione, and Ron on a dangerous chase. The first Horcrux — Tom Riddle's diary — made by Lord Voldemort came into existence when the villain was only a sixteen-year-old Hogwarts student. Before he was defeated, Voldemort passed the diary on to a man whom he considered to be a faithful follower, Lucius Malfoy.

The diary then found its way into the hands of Ginny Weasley, who, terrifyingly, nearly died because of the whole ordeal and Tom Riddle began to seep through its pages in an attempt to come back while the real Voldemort was off hiding. Harry managed to destroy it by impulsively stabbing it with a Basilisk fang, with Basilisk venom just so happening to be one of the very few substances that is corrosive to a Horcrux — a crucial bit of luck for Harry.

Marvolo Gaunt's ring was a Gaunt family heirloom. Merope was Tom Riddle's mother, and although the Gaunt family were ostracized, they were about as pure-blood as it got before their line died out.

In fact, they descended from Salazar Slytherin himself. Since Merope had Voldemort with a Muggle, he was not pure-blood, but others in his family were, and no doubt he valued this enough to consider the ring worthy of being one of the seven Horcruxes.

Tom wore the ring while at Hogwarts, but it was not actually made to hold a piece of his soul until later. The ring was destroyed close to the end of the book series by Albus Dumbledore, who used Godric Gryffindor's sword. Thanks to Harry, the sword was impregnated with Basilisk venom, marking its destruction.

He became less human as he continued through the series, eventually losing his nose. It is possible that as he divided it even further, there might have been even more dramatic consequences, that he couldn't even fortell.

Murder alone isn't sufficient to create a Horcrux, there is some kind of further enchantment to create a horcrux. What it is is a well known secret, and is never mentioned in any media, according to the Harry Potter Wiki. I think a quote from an answer to a different question might also add something here:.

JKR: I see it as a series of things you would have to do. So you would have to perform a spell. But you would also - I don't even know if I want to say it out loud, I know that sounds funny.

But I did really think it through. There are two things that I think are too horrible, actually, to go into detail about. One of them is how Pettigrew brought Voldemort back into a rudimentary body. And then - and the other thing is, how you make a Horcrux. And I don't even like - I don't know.

Will it be in the Encyclopedia? I don't know if I can bring myself to, ummm I don't know. This quote is from an Interview with Jo Rowling which was originally brought to my attention by Richard when he was answering the linked question. My point here is, obviously, the process of making a Horcrux is not just more than murder and murder is obviously to be differentiated from killing, as well , it is magnificently horrible.

Now obviously Tom Riddle wasn't afraid of getting his hands dirty, but one gathers that making a Horcrux is an involved process and the fact that he killed many on his rise to power is only one part of the puzzle. But Lord Voldemort use tin cans or old potion bottles to guard his own precious soul? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - p. On the whole, though, these are minor additional points. I think the main points are his fixation on the number 7 and the danger of having more than one Horcrux, alluded to elsewhere.

It warns in this book how unstable you make the rest of your soul by ripping it, and that's just by making one Horcrux! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - p. As an addendum to the existing answers, he may have had multiple parts of his soul within his body though the accidental creation of Harry as a horcrux means some explanation of how he has kept those pieces within him is necessary.