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A horcrux is an artefact created by a dark magician.

There is an advanced process in dark magic by which the magician can split his soul into separate pieces, and then store some of those pieces in a physical object, an animal, or (in extreme cases) a person.

The magician loses coherence as a person when he creates such a horcrux, but he can no longer be killed unless every horcrux (including the horcrux which is now the magician's own physical body) is destroyed.

As a wizard creates more and more horcruxes he become harder to kill (but less coherent as a personality).

You can make as many as you want but you get less and less human for each horcrux. The Harry Potter books examine whether this is so.

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