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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Harry Potter] Is it a bad idea to make your wand a horcrux?
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It's a pretty bad idea to make a horcrux at all, so the answer is yes.

But if we were to ignore all the obvious downsides of making a horcrux and assume that you're *going* to make one, a wand would be a fairly bad choice.

Wands are slightly intelligent magical objects ("the wand chooses the wizard" and all that), and it's generally a bad idea to give something that's intelligent a piece of your soul to hold onto.

That's not even considering the potentially weird things that might happen putting a piece of your soul into a complicated magical object, especially one that's intelligent. Just look at Nagini (mundane but intelligent), and Harry (magical and debatably intelligent); Nagini gained a weird level of intelligence through the process, and Harry ended up being extremely effective against Voldemort. Think if your wand became loyal to another wizard (potentially a rival of yours). If it reacts anything like Harry did to becoming a Horcrux, that wand will now be extremely effective against your magic with very little actual skill or power on the part of the user. If you're in the business of making horcruxes, that's almost definitely not something you want.