A Horcrux is a class of magical objects introduced in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Its nature is central to important events in the novel, and in the Harry Potter series as a whole. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth part of the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling. ... This article is about the Harry Potter book series. ...
A Horcrux is a device created and used by the Darkest of wizards seeking immortal life. A Horcrux (similar to a phylactery in the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons) is a vessel in which a Dark wizard stores his soul to prevent death. In order to do so, the wizard must essentially rend his soul into two pieces, half of the soul remaining in his body while the other half is stored in his Horcrux. The catalyst for the process of tearing the soul is committing a premeditated and malicious murder. While there do not appear to be any specific stipulations about the nature of the items that become Horcruxes, wizards commonly choose items of either sentimental or monetary value (or both) to serve the purpose, in order to prevent accidental destruction. Phylactery can mean: An amulet to preserve the wearer from harm, enclosing magical text, herbs or relics. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... The soul according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. ... Death is eithers the cessation of life in a living organism or the state of the organism after that event. ...
The importance of using a Horcrux is that while a piece of the wizard's soul exists elsewhere, he or she cannot be killed. This is exactly how Lord Voldemort escaped death during his fateful attack on Harry Potter -- he had created a Horcrux (several, as would be revealed) so that his soul was not entirely destroyed. In fact, Voldemort had created 6 Horcruxes, thus rending his soul into 7 pieces, for a part of it stayed with him. Albus Dumbledore suspected that the items that were Voldemort's Horcruxes were: Lord Voldemort (born c. ... This article is about the Harry Potter book series. ... // About Dumbledore Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (born c. ...
Marvolo Gaunt's ring, hidden in Gaunt's shack (destroyed by Dumbledore before the start of the school year in HPB)
Later, Dumbledore destroys a second Horcrux, a ring which was an heirloom of Voldemort's family.
Dumbledore's death is foreshadowed at the start of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, where he first appears with a burnt and flened hand, a result of his recovery and destruction of a ring that was an heirloom of Voldemort's grandfather Marvolo Gaunt and was serving as one of Voldemort'sHorcruxes.
On that occasion, Dumbledore is saved from death thanks to his own "prodigious skill" and the intervention of the school's Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Severus Snape, though the injury shows no sign of improvement throughout the year that passes in the sixth book.
As for Harry being a horcrux, it is indeed an attractive idea, and Snape’s warning to the Death Eaters not to kill harry because he “belongs to the Dark Lord” is indeed intriguing.
Harry is still a horcrux and her sacrifice was in vain (apart of course, from her love, which now flows through Harry’s veins and LV’s, which I suppose is going to be of great importance in Book 7).
Harry is not a horcrux there is proof enough in the magical protection of lily potter when she died protecting her son.
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