> A better fit to Tom Riddle's horcrux would simply be a lossy compression copy of the file.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my memory is that a horcrux is literally a piece of your original, whole soul. So, if you create one horcrux (as seems to have been the standard practice prior to Tom Riddle), you continue living from then on with only half a soul. Voldemort's capacity for evil came partly from having only 1/7 of a soul in his body.
So I actually think the name kind of fits. Where it loses me a bit is that you can recreate the original file without all of the Horcruxes. Simply splitting the bytes into separate files would be closer IMO.
> Voldemort's capacity for evil came partly from having only 1/7 of a soul in his body.
He was plenty evil before he made horcruxes.
Splitting the bytes would be closer only for file types that work (maybe not to the fullest) as 1/n pieces. OP misunderstood and thought that Tom Riddles soul was in full when he reconstructed his body, but it was actually only 1/7, and terribly maimed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my memory is that a horcrux is literally a piece of your original, whole soul. So, if you create one horcrux (as seems to have been the standard practice prior to Tom Riddle), you continue living from then on with only half a soul. Voldemort's capacity for evil came partly from having only 1/7 of a soul in his body.
So I actually think the name kind of fits. Where it loses me a bit is that you can recreate the original file without all of the Horcruxes. Simply splitting the bytes into separate files would be closer IMO.