Voldie and Ghosts

[Anne Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 120277


Though I don't post much- ok rarely- it just occured
to me as I was lying in bed about to sleep and
thought I might get some other people's input, though
I am not sure if this has been discussed.

It seems to me that Harry has to "vanquish" Voldie in
such a way that he can not have the choice to come
back as a ghost. We know that Voldie fears death so
much as to do whatever he did to not die when the
Avada rebounded to him from Harry, not to mention his
own admission that he thinks "there is nothing worse
than death" (OOP, 814, American edition). Furthermore,
even as a ghost, he would still be able to control the
other death eaters by giving them orders. Not to
mention he would try to find a way to live again,
after all he did it before. (Which leads to a sideline
topic of what exactly Vapormort was, but that's for
another day.)

This brought me into thoughts of what can be done to
prevent a person, besides their own determination, to
become a ghost. We don't know for sure, but it seems
to me that because the Dementor's Kiss steals a
person's soul, that this would be one viable way for
him to totally disappear. But I am also wondering what
other things might be out there. Any thoughts or
anything I am over looking?

-Anne (despite her unability to remember if there are
other Annes, and knowing full well the probability
that there are)