The Fateful Night

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 42271

Meg Demeranville wrote:
> After careful consideration of Grey Wolf's post while plastering my bathroom, I have the following questions:
> 
>> <snip excellent parts of Grey Wolf's post>  However, Voldemort 
>> forgets the ancient love-shield spell based on a sacrifice for love 
>> that Lily had been studying, and when he tries to AK Harry, the AK
>> rebounds on the love shield and hits him squarely. When the AK spell
>> which, in my opinion, disassociates the soul from the body, hits the
>> almost soul-less Voldemort, after having been rebounded in a love
>> shield, all hell breaks loose. His body detonates with extreme 
>> force, blowing off the room's ceiling and dropping bits and pieces
>> of house all over Godric's Hollow. So far, in fact, that almost none
>> of it falls on Harry (and what little it does fall on him is easily
>> stopped by the love shield and the innate magic protection all 
>> wizards have). <snip>
> 
> Where does it say that Voldermort has no soul? Hagrid says "Some say
> he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left
> in him to die." (p. 57 SS US Hardback). I would think that his soul
> is all that he has left. That would be why he needed to get a new
> body in GoF. His vapor form that fled to Albania was his soul, which
> was probably black as midnight in my humble opinion. 
>
> -- Meg (who is stuck in the splint until school starts)

Where does it say that Voldermort has no soul? Right there in that 
quote you gracefully included (thanks for not making me translate it!), 
but it's just a matter of interpretation. I've always understood that 
"Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die" meant that he had 
become so totally evil that his soul had been tarnished to the point he 
could not be considered a human being anymore. Back in the days I was a 
newbie in the list I already proposed my AK theory. Check post #32751 
for the full theory (things have changed since then, though. I don't 
believe now that the body of Voldemort was found, but it's a minor 
detail).

There are, anyway, other posibilities. One is that one of his multiple 
experiments worked correctly, of sorts, and prevented his soul from 
being utterly destroyed when hit by the AK. Another is that a rebounded 
AK does not work correctly. Yet another is that one of his experiments 
worked perfectly: when faced with death, it separates consciousness 
from body, giving it a vapour form. Or any suitable conbination, as 
always.

Finally, a bit of explanation of my own theory: the soul-less 
Voldemort. In this theory, I supose that V has, through a series of 
evil acts and magical experiments, destroyed his own soul until only a 
strange, vapour-like one remains. Thus, when it get's separated from 
his body his soul doesn't take the form the body used to have, like in 
the case of ghosts, but the famous vapour form.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf