[HPforGrownups] Vold.vs. Dementors / Fudge / Flitwick

[Laura Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 36653

T.S. Silva inquires:

>(i) Can a dementor's kiss destroy Voldemort?

This is an interesting question, as it asks a lot of peripheral ones.  For instance, is Voldemort still in possession of an undamaged, unaltered soul?  If so, would it cost him much to lose it? In canon, the parallels between Voldie an the average soul-sucker are pretty numerous.  For example, they both have the bodies of distorted humans.  Furthermore, they are both terrifying creatures, seemingly incapable of the gentler human emotions, and both have the ability to cause violent physical reactions in Harry.

So, although it is quite obvious, that, for all his hare-brained scheming, V. is not the blubbering, mindless lunatic that Crouch Jr. becomes after losing his soul, I wonder, during his quest for immortality, if Voldie ever exchanged his soul for something less...troublesome.  Perhaps, he somehow altered/exchanged his soul for whatever survived the rebounding of the A.K. curse.  But what of the effect of using Harry's blood in his resurrection spell?

In PS/SS, Dumbledore tells Harry that Voldie/Quirrel cannot touch him [Harry] because, "Your mother died to save you [blah, blah, blah about love]..Quirrel [...] sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason."  This makes it sound that as if whatever V. has become cannot stand the touch of Harry because of the goodness of his mother's love.  However, after using Harry's blood for his little concoction, V. *can* touch him, so maybe he's lost whatever part of him couldn't stand Harry's touch -- the part that kept him "alive" after the A.K. curse.

This, in my opinion, is an excellent explanation for Dumbledore's infamous gleam and why it might be that V. has managed to disadvantage himself be using Harry's blood.

mm..this theory probably isn't anything new -- just my rambling thought processes.

laura         



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