How To Kill An Immortal

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 40099

  Greetings!

  Given all this late discussion on the subject of how to
kill the immortal Voldemort (AKA Voldemmortal ;)

  Actually, this problem is long solved (somewhere in 1995)
by a Russian science fiction author. His book was never
translated into English (this particular one), so no big
surprise nobody have read it but me.

  So, what we have is the resurrection-type immortality
(whenever we kill Voldemmortal, he resurrects again). In the
Russian book, situation was even more difficult:
resurrection happened NOT at the place of death, and the
resurrected person enjoyed full resurrection (without any
stupid vapour forms).

  Such a person still can be killed. Not in a physical
sense, though. The only way to kill such a person is to
drive him insane, to make him live not in the real world,
but in the world of his illusions (ah, and the book's name
is "Emperors of Illusions", btw ;).

  Potterverse has all the necessary means for such
enterprise. The only problem is that these means exist not
in the Wizarding World, but in Muggle World - that is, the
psychological techniques available in late XX-th century.

  Yes, yes, I know this is even more evil than putting poor guy
Voldie into eternal imprisonment in his vapour form. But
this is much more reliable. Insane Voldemmortal is no longer
dangerous but to those who try to contact him (that is, to
those persons who would try to resque him in case of
imprisoned Vapourmort).

  Still, I stick to the idea that true immortality (unaging,
resurrection, restoration) is impossible in the Potterverse.

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed,
always happy to throw weird ideas into community.

Thursday, June 20, 2002, 15:48 local time (GMT+2:00)

P.S. Two terms introduced in this letter:

  1. Voldemmortal - Voldemort who has achieved immortality
     (never yet existed in the books).
  2. Vapourmort - Voldemort in his vapour form.