Echoes (was Re: James Potter Dead????)

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 57434

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...>
wrote:
> peggybaratto wrote:
> Not too long after all the "You heard James?" etc. from Lupin, in 
> his next antidementor lesson, Harry asks about what's under a
> dementors hood.  Lupin procedes to tell him no one really knows 
> who can actually say, but then says they must have a mouth because 
> the jaws are clamped over the mouth to suck out the soul.  Would 
> it then be possible to return that soul to another body?  Could two 
> souls be switched and live on in different bodies?

Oh, yuck, dementor vomit (possibly a good band name?).  But if my soul
were already, say, partially digested, I'm not sure I'd want it back.
 But then I'd be thinking about it in a partially digested state. 
Uh-oh, this may give me something like a time travel headache...

Incidentally, the whole concept of James, Lily, and Cedric being
"echoes" when the re-emerge from Voldemort's wand perplexes me. 
"Ghosts" really does seem closer to accurate.  After all, can echoes
recognize present circumstances?  ("Harry, son, good to see you!") 
Can they make requests?  (Hey, Harry, would you mind dragging my body
back with you so it doesn't have to fester in this stinking
graveyard?")  And when they subsequently disappear (Lily or James says
they won't be around for long), where do they go?  Do they just
dissipate?  Do they go back into Voldemort's want?  If the latter, can
they be summoned again?

Ersatz Harry, who wonders what happens when an echo gets hold of a
time turner