gwern comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 10 August 2012 07:14:34PM 0 points [-]

In canon, Dumbledore claims that Voldemort's soul latched onto Harry's soul, which means that this would work. Dumbledore is very smart and knows much more about magic than I do, so I think that it would probably work.

Latching onto Harry's soul doesn't prove that mutual horcruxes would work since it doesn't address my example of destroying horcruxes one at a time, and I'm pretty sure Dumbledore nowhere says that the mutual horcrux scheme would work.