What was LV up to *before* that night in GH? (long)

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 121547


Peg wrote: (massivily snipped):

>Freden and Odell believe that LV's soul is caught in Harry as a side
>effect of the AK. But. JKR clearly stated that LV survived because
>of something that he'd done *before* he ever tried to cast the AK
>against Harry at GH. LV knows very well where his soul is, thank
>you, and doesn't seem to miss it in the least.

>If that soul is lodged in a token, as I suspect, Harry's quest then
>becomes one to find the location of Voldemort's soul-token and free
>the trapped soul. Harry doesn't lose his powers, doesn't have to
>die, doesn't have to kill Voldemort (LV has, in the sense of the
>Potterverse, committed suicide). If the trapped soul is freed, it
>may, as J. Odell suggested, flee through the veil (Dobby wants to be
>free, sir). I can't blame it. I suspect that Godric Gryffindor's
>sword may come into play somewhere in the freeing of the soul.


Leah:

I've been nagged for a while by Cathy's lament for Heathcliff, "How 
can I live without my heart?- how can I die without my soul?", which 
seemed to me to have some HP related resonance, so I was thrilled by 
this post.  

If VM's soul is lodged in a token somewhere, then I rather hope that 
token is stored in a vault in Gringotts, bringing a nicely circular 
ending to the septology ( and I can't believe there isn't more to say 
about Gringotts).  

A rather gruesome token occurs to me.  Crouch Snr was transfigured 
into a bone, and Riddle Snr's bone was used in VM's potion. Could VM 
have stored his soul in his mother's bone?

Leah