The Philospher's Stone (was: Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions))

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No: HPFGUIDX 119525


> Jen:
 Now there's an interesting thought. Actually, bodily 
immortality is sounding ifinitely less appealing when you consider 
the possibility that immortality of the body doesn't convey freedom 
from mental or emotional pain. Who wants to endure lifetimes of 
that? But that worry isn't high on Voldemort's list. Maybe his 
pursuit of immortality involved the extinguishment of all human 
feelings as well (except rage, apparently <g>).


Alla:

I love this discussion. Just a brief comment, Jen. I think that it is 
possible that in his pursuit of immortality Voldemort wanted to 
extinguish some human feelings, not all of them. I can easily imagine 
that he wanted to get rid of feeling pain, but got more than he 
bargained for. I don't know - maybe he lost the ability to feel 
anything positive in process.