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Was Voldemort intending to create a horcrux when he attacked Harry Potter?


Now I'm not talking about part of Voldemort's soul inside Harry which he never intended to put there. What I am asking is when he went to the Potter's house, was he only intending to destroy Harry because of what he had heard about the prophecy, or did he have some intention to create another horcrux based on this particular killing?


I have a very faint memory of reading somewhere that Voldemort had intended to use Harry's destruction as a means of adding another horcrux, which was the reason why his soul was torn apart and latched onto Harry (being unstable due to the horcruxes he had already made) when his curse backfired, which seemed to make sense (Voldemort had probably killed lots of people after making his horcruxes and before attacking Harry, and even after creating the Nagini horcrux he has done so many times, but his soul did not break apart and latch on to random objects in those cases). Now I cannot find what gave me this idea.


Is this mentioned anywhere in the books, or am I getting confused due to some random information I read somewhere else?




Answer



Yes, or at least Professor Dumbledore believed so and his guesses are usually correct. Quoting him from Half-Blood Prince chapter 23.



‘[…] Voldemort was still at least one Horcrux short of his goal of six when he entered your parents' house with the intention of killing you.


‘He seems to have reserved the process of making Horcruxes for particularly significant deaths. You would certainly have been that. He believed that in killing you, he was destroying the danger the prophecy had outlined. He believed he was making himself invincible. I am sure that he was intending to make his final Horcrux with your death.


‘As we know, he failed.



Update: fixed typos in quotation.


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