Luna's intuition (was Heliopaths)

[thetruthisoutthere_13]

No: HPFGUIDX 78850

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "urghiggi" <urghiggi at y...> 
wrote:

(snipped)

> Major religions differ on this point, but if JKR really believes 
in the tenets of 
> her protestant faith, she likely would endorse the idea that the 
soul continues 
> to exist after death somehow as a unique personality, not just 
part of the great 
> life force (a la Buddhism) or even only as traits/qualities that 
live on and are 
> revealed in our descendants (a la Harry's Patronus). > Urghiggi, 
chgo

Hmm, random thought, but I wonder if you could pull the echoes of 
Harry's parents that he saw in book four into this thought. Harry 
seeing his parents emerge from Voldemort's wand could have a few 
main purposes: 1) (the obvious) they're truly dead and won't be seen 
again by Harry in any corporal or ghost form, but 2) their spirits 
live on somewhere. Know how all of the echoes talked to Harry, made 
requests, etc? Perhaps the smoky forms were tied to the soul of the 
person, or the person's greater awareness, like they're an earthly 
echo of the person's soul that exists beyond the physical plane.

Okay, I need to start getting more sleep.

-kg