Comment by diagramchaser on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 19, chapter 88-89 · 2013-07-01T12:37:38.833Z · LW · GW

While I consider this unlikely, it would help explain the scene with Hermione's soul seemingly leaving her body. As far as I remember the characters who deaths seems we saw in canon didn't have this effect and having a Horocrux would differentiate Hermione from them.