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[Harry Potter] So was Voldemort just like... stupid? Hear me out.

So we know that when you kill someone part of your soul gets sucked out and you can place it in a Horcrux. Im sure time and again someone somewhere in the wizarding world is sentenced to death. Someone with the political skills that Voldemort had and the drive and intent could of gotten the job to be the actual executioner. Kill 2 or 3 of the condemned and just dont be an asshat and live forever. Which was actually his primary goal all along. He was just a dick and did not care how he went about it which led to the mustache twirling villain trope he fell into.


Am I missing something here.
gpt
Well for one thing, creating a Horcrux requires you to murder someone, rather than killing them. So being an executioner wouldn't be a sufficient method for creating Horcruxes.

Voldemort's ultimate goal was not live forever. Yes, he desired immortality, but he also desired absolute power over the wizarding world and the purification of the wizarding world. Being an executioner would not advance those goals.

The very act of splitting one's soul also has the effect of mutilating one's own humanity. So creating even just one horcrux will make you  more sadistic than before, so even if the executioner plan somehow worked, and all he ever wanted was immortality, Voldemort wouldn't be satisfied with simply living forever.