A single helium attom?
Hydrogen?
Helium is a noble gas, I guess they don’t want to risk it breaking if it bonds with something else, slut that hydrogen is?
Ah, but your horcrux isn’t a water molecule to be split it’s the hydrogen atom itself so if it bonds and you split the bond the horcrux is still intact.
Like if the diary were put into a bookshelf it wasn’t destroyed by removing it from the shelf.
You can split a helium atom into two hydrogen, but good luck splitting a hydrogen atom.
Argon would be better, as it won’t leave Earth and float off into space never to be seen again.
When it comes to a horcrux that would be the most ideal no?
Nice try, Al-bum.
A butt plug
Certainly changes that scene in Deathly Hallows
“No, you should do it.”
“Me?’ said Ron, looking shocked. ‘Why?”
“Because you got the sword out of the pool. I think it’s supposed to be you.”
A Nokia 3310
That seems… overpowered.
A grain of sand, dump it in the ocean
I was thinking the same thing, except a rock. I frequently visit ships as part of my job, and it would be no problem dumping it somewhere it would be likely to remain undisturbed for the rest of eternity. A grain if sand is likely to move with the currents. A rock will not.
It’ll eventually be subducted, I think getting it into deep space is more likely to be long-term secure.
But then your loyal servants won’t be able to find it either to bring you back.
I was unaware that they needed to physically be retrieved in order to be resurrected.
I always thought of them as a sort of anchor, preventing a soul from passing. Being bound to earth. The horcrux’s physical form or location being unimportant.
Water.
Not a specific vial of water or a pond or something. WATER. All of it.
Destroy that 🖕
bitch nobody knows what that is
Go to school for aeronautics, become a rocket scientist. Get a job making rockets and satellites. When you finally get to work on a probe that is designed to not return, make it a horcrux just before it’s launched. Even if people eventually figure out what it is, they won’t be able to do anything about it until we have access to FTL travel.
But when you respawn, wouldn’t you be in outer space, too?
Huh, maybe.
You don’t respawn from the horcrux, it just tethers your soul to the world, but maybe it could result in your soul getting drifted into space somehow?
I don’t think that’s what Rowling intended, but I dare say she might have made a few logic errors in her children’s books.
It could be the reason they were all relatively close to the UK. Proximity to the main alive version. Maybe they work as a big “triangulation” network.
Yeah, I assume you’d have another one (or more) on earth that would be the “main” one(s). It’s like doing computer backups (keep them apart), but with more murder.
The Hope diamond.
A screw thats about to be fired into space and ejected off into the infinite great beyond.
Can’t do shit about my horcrux if it’s floating out past nebula 12.
There’s a fan fiction where Voldemort (probably) horcruxified the Pioneer 11 plaque.
That kind of thing was going to be my answer to this question also.
The main downside I can think of, is a Horcrux similar to a Lich Phylactery in that you have to reform adjacent to it?
Incredible. I love it.
Nuclear Bombs, because if they wanna destroy me, they’ll have to destroy civilization too 😎
Nuclear bombs don’t just go off. You can blow them up and they just won’t work. They’re a pretty complex mechanism that needs to work perfectly. The fissile material inside is dangerous if you spread it about though.
The moon, or better yet, the sun
I’d use Pioneer 10.
Nice try Auror but you’ll never catch me!
I would make irreplaceable objects like the Mona Lisa or Kurt Cobain’s acoustic guitar into my Horcruxes.
I would make it so that the cultural loss of what it takes to kill me would be far greater than anything I could ever do.
Good idea, but you’re still using small objects which can be destroyed by someone desperate (or a clever enough wizard). You want something large and physically resilient - the kind of thing that would be both hard to vanish, and is going to take something like a bomb to get rid of.
Make it something huge. One of the Pyramids of Giza. The Papal Palace. The Tower of London.
- a used condom on a sandy New York beach
- the single pickle in the jar at the back of the refrigerator, alternatively the single broken carrot in the bottom of the crisper
- chewed up gum on the bottom of a desk
- a single pink shoe, size 4, in the middle of the woods
- a used dildo stuck in a gutter grate
- the McDonald’s French fry(or penny) you dropped under your car seat that one time
I think that covers most of them.
