Yes, they don't get "used up." If you have one or more Horcruxes existing somewhere, the slice from your body will not die, it will like roam the forest weaker than the meanest ghost, and stuff.
I don't know if you could build more Voldemorts out of the slices in the Horcruxes, but the exception seems to be the diary. The diary does not behave as a normal Horcrux, and I think that one could have actually created a corporeal Tom if it had killed Ginny.
I don't know if that means diary Tom could have reabsorbed the homeless slice, or whether it would have created the potion to give the other slice a body, and then there would be two Voldemorts.
The diary (or, JKR's answer above, more precisely) confuses me anyway. If the soul-piece just rejoined Voldemort, how would this strengthen him? Does that mean that creating the Horcruxes in the first place has weakened him?
Maybe JKR meant that now that the diary has been destroyed, the soul-bit is gone forever; and if the soul-bit had been able to escape the diary, it would still exist - maybe to be made into another Horcrux....
And what would have happened if someone had destroyed all the Horcruxes while Voldemort didn't have a body?
It could mean that if Diary Tom rejoined the hostless soul slice, that the potion wouldn't have been necessary. It could be the potion that weakened him, thus Dumbledore's looking happy for a second in the hospital wing at the end of GoF.
But you're right, maybe it just means that if Diary Tom had succeeded, there would still be one more slice.
If all the Horcruxes were destroyed after Voldemort's body, I think there would still be the last piece to contend with. And how to even find it? He probably did have to get a body again in order to be killed again.
So you think that Diary Tom would have had an actual body? Then Voldemort could have been young again :)...
If this is true, the diary-horcrux was something completely different than the other Horcruxes. A combination of Tom Riddle's personality, Voldemort's soul and the ability to create a functional body? Tom Riddle really was an extraordinary wizard at the age of 16!
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I don't know if you could build more Voldemorts out of the slices in the Horcruxes, but the exception seems to be the diary. The diary does not behave as a normal Horcrux, and I think that one could have actually created a corporeal Tom if it had killed Ginny.
In 'Chamber of Secrets', what would have happened if Ginny had died and Tom Riddle had escaped the diary?
I can’t answer that fully until all seven books are finished, but it would have strengthened the present-day Voldemort considerably.
I don't know if that means diary Tom could have reabsorbed the homeless slice, or whether it would have created the potion to give the other slice a body, and then there would be two Voldemorts.
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If the soul-piece just rejoined Voldemort, how would this strengthen him? Does that mean that creating the Horcruxes in the first place has weakened him?
Maybe JKR meant that now that the diary has been destroyed, the soul-bit is gone forever; and if the soul-bit had been able to escape the diary, it would still exist - maybe to be made into another Horcrux....
And what would have happened if someone had destroyed all the Horcruxes while Voldemort didn't have a body?
Very confusing...
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But you're right, maybe it just means that if Diary Tom had succeeded, there would still be one more slice.
If all the Horcruxes were destroyed after Voldemort's body, I think there would still be the last piece to contend with. And how to even find it? He probably did have to get a body again in order to be killed again.
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If this is true, the diary-horcrux was something completely different than the other Horcruxes. A combination of Tom Riddle's personality, Voldemort's soul and the ability to create a functional body? Tom Riddle really was an extraordinary wizard at the age of 16!
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