Will Harry lose his powers was Re: What's in the locked room?

[justcarol67]

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Ali wrote:-
 
>> <snip> Another possible fate which awaits Harry is the Kiss. The
Kiss is 
> presented as something which is worse than death. By taking the 
> soul away, and leaving someone with no sense of self, it would
appear that the victim is denied an afterlife. JKR does not spell this 
> out. But if the victim continues to exist, but can then die and enjoy 
> the afterlife, the Kiss wouldn't seem to be such a terrible trauma.>>


Carol:
On the contrary, Lupin and others take pains to indicate that the Kiss
is worse than death because the person who is kissed has lost his
soul. Not only can he never live again, except as a soulless body
without human emotion or memory, but his death when it happens won't
be "the next great adventure." It will be the death of an empty body
only. Nothingness, absence--no afterlife, no joining with loved ones,
 not even cold or darkness. The soul is gone for ever, absorbed into
the soulless being of the dementor. The body decomposes. Nothing is
left. Nothing.

I didn't want that fate for Sirius even when I thought he was a
murderer. I certainly don't want it for Harry. The only character for
whom a Dementor's Kiss would be a fitting end is Voldemort.

Carol