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[Harry Potter]Would a garden-variety dark wizard even benefit from a horcrux?

I'm a "middle-class" dark wizard. Not a scary monster in the shadows, but I certainly don't have some fascist conspiracy doing my bidding either. I'm just a guy who uses dark magic to get ahead when I can -- I love the feeling of power it gives me -- but I live a relatively normal day-to-day life. I wanted to live forever, so I studied the right books and murdered someone and made a horcrux, and I hid it well.

But now look at what happened to Voldemort. He had a half-dozen horcruxes; he gets killed *one* time, and he comes back a decade later as a face on the back of some guy's head! Yes it's amazing that he's alive at all, but this form of immortality is almost more trouble than dying! He has to drink unicorn blood, and his followers have to infiltrate Hogwarts, subvert the tri-wizard tourney, and cast an elaborate spell that involves cutting off your own arm. Come on -- I know a guy who knows a guy, but no one is going to cut off their arm for me 10 years in the future!

And again, I realize that in one way it would be an amazing demonstration of power if someone AK'd me and I came back. That would be great. But... look at it from my point of view. I "live" only by becoming some kind of gross, weak creature. It might take me 10 years to get back into a real body; I'm no Voldemort, and it was hard even for him, so I may very well *never* return to human form. Even if I do, my wand, house, savings, etc. are all long gone, and I look like an Uruk-Hai. Nothing about this feels like a "look how powerful I am" situation!

If you're not Dark Lord material, if you don't have fanatical supporters, is there even any point in making a horcrux? Is there something I can do to come back as myself instead of an urban legend?
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Yep, you pretty much got the gist of why Horcruxes aren't worth it even if you aren't bothered about murdering someone. The important thing to consider is that Horcruxification binds the soul to the mortal plane, but it doesn't do much for the body, and solutions to that problem are difficult, inelegant, and literally ugly.

Since you seem like a respectable sort with surely no ulterior motives, I'll drop you a name you might be interested in researching; Have you ever heard of Nicolas Flamel?