Soul Survival of Death, as seen by the WW

[visservoldemort]

No: HPFGUIDX 38552

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
> > Uh...of _course_ the Wizard World believes in the survival of the 
> soul after
> > the body's death!  _How_ many ghosts have we met or had mentioned?
> > 
> > I'm one of the hardest-barked skeptics on this subject you will 
> _ever_ find,> > but meeting real un-live ghosts and having it 
proven to my 
> satisfaction that
> > they _are_ indeed ghosts would certainly change my mind in a 
hurry!

Not really, after all, it really is simply what you view the "soul" 
as. I mean, if the soul quantifies all memories, free-will and 
personality then the soul is what you see in ghosts. But it's also 
entirely possible that the soul represents something more alongst the 
lines of the capacity and manner of how an individual changes over 
time, for instance, take Moaning Myrtle. She died in an unhappy 
moment for herself, as a teenager, now first, regardless of whether 
ghosts forms change over time, her mind should have progressed to a 
adult by this time, according to the "Claudia" Theory mental growth 
can occur even if physical growth is competely stopped during, or 
even before, adolescense. However after 50 years we still have an 
unhappy teenage girl. Secondly, Myrtle, hence her nickname, is prone 
to displays of oversensitivity and hysterical sobbing beyond all 
reasonable levels, even during the teenage period. Hence her 
emotional growth may not only have stopped at the age she died, but 
at the exact moment she died! 

 At the moment she was killed she had been sobbing and just finishing 
her crying from Olive Hornsby's comment, she was highly sensitive 
and, like most people in a sad emotional state, not at all above 
using sadism to make her feel better. She was also slightly annoyed 
and prepared to tell off the "boy" she had just heard in the Girl's 
Bathroom. So she steps out of the stall in this state, stares into 
the Basilisk's eyes and BANG! dies and all emotional progression and 
recovery is frozen, never to move forward again. Thereby, according 
to that logic the soul represents the minds capacity to grow and move 
on from catastrophe and success.

,VisserVoldemort
 
P.S: The Claudia Theory is in reference to the Vampire Child Claudia 
in the book Interview with the Vampire, a lovely book of which I 
would recommend, alongst with it's spectacular sequels, to any HP fan.