12 Questions About Harry Potter Movies That Keep You Up At Night

Of all the complex magic, the kind of spells that take real skill, dedication, and commitment to pull off correctly, there is nothing in the wizarding world so rare to achieve as the creation of a Horcrux. Voldemort did it with great success, as did the Ancient Greek wizard Herpo the Foul, but no one else.

Naturally, a lot of this comes down to witches and wizards generally not being so evil as to attempt it, but certainly there would have been plenty who tried. Mainly, the act is rarely committed simply because so few people know how to.

Thanks to Professor Slughorn, we know that in order to put part of your soul into another object you must commit murder, the supreme act of evil. Other than that, we're left pretty much in the dark, but who hasn't wondered to exactly what lengths did Voldemort have to go to to create so many?

Judging by how difficult and intricate the Animagus spell is, surely creating a Horcrux would be even worse. If it was just murder and nothing else, it's safe to assume that Bellatrix Lestrange among many others would have created at least one or two. Clearly it's not that simple, so what did Voldemort have to do to achieve breaking his soul into so many different pieces?