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harry potter - Why wouldn't Voldemort create new Horcruxes?


Once Voldemort realized that Harry Potter was hunting for Horcruxes and knew were they were (e.g. after visiting the cave), why wouldn't he simply pause, and make at least one MORE replacement Horcrux that Harry wouldn't know the location of (because obviously the locations were figured out by the now-dead Dumbledore and not Harry, as far as V's thinking would go)?


This way, there's less risk for him on the chance that Harry succeeds.


We know he can make extra Horcruxes since he created Nagini.


If it was because he was racing against Harry, then why didn't he pause and create a new Horcux (say, by killing Lucius Malfoy) once Harry was "dead" and he could afford to pause?


Canon based answers strongly prefered.



Answer



A few points.


I don't know if in Godelot's Magick Moste Evile¹ there were directions on how to destroy a Horcrux and a list of items that were magically powerful enough to actually do so. If not, it may be possible that Voldemort believed no one would ever discover how to destroy his Horcruxes even if they were found. Of course this supposition leaves open the idea that then Voldemort himself would not know how his Horcruxes could be destroyed and wouldn't know best how to protect them. Therefore I'm not going to wholeheartedly endorse this premise.



Voldemort bet heavily -- almost 100% -- that no one would discover the diadem Horcrux in Hogwarts in the Room of Requirement. Up until the very end he continued to believe that the diadem was too well hidden for him to be at risk by someone finding it.


rsegal mentions the number seven. Tom Riddle/Voldemort was obsessed with the number seven, it being the "most magical number", and he may have been psychologically unable to move past that sacred number. Of course he didn't know he had actually, inadvertently, created an eighth pseudo-Horcrux within Harry.


Voldemort's soul was completely fractured and damaged. His body may not have survived an attempt at making another Horcrux. Further, it's never been explained why Harry wasn't killed as a baby; it's never been explained what was so magically different about Harry that caused the Avada Kedavra curse to rebound and hit Voldemort and reduce Voldemort to an essence without a body. It's always been, "Something about [Harry] stopped [Voldemort]. [Harry's] the Boy Who Lived." Is it just simply Lily's sacrifice? If so, well okay. But if not, what if Voldemort chose to commit another Horcrux murder against someone who happened to have similar inherent magical protections as Harry and the curse rebounded against Voldemort again, reducing Voldemort to a spirit state for a second time? Perhaps he wasn't willing to risk this.


We don't know how long it takes to create a Horcrux. We know it involves a murder and a spell. Creating a Horcrux is apparently painful. It's unknown how long it takes to physically recover from creating a Horcrux. It could have been time sensitive by the time Voldemort realized he was truly in danger and needed further protection.


And, finally, the usual: Voldemort was arrogant.


¹Referenced from The Tales of Beedle the Bard - The Tale of the Three Brothers


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