Why Did Voldemort Live?

[Emily]

No: HPFGUIDX 129045

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sophierom" <sophierom at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I think Rowling believes there's a critical difference between 
> physical death and spiritual death.  In some ways, I think of
> Voldemort pre-OotP as existing in a similar sort of state
> as the Hogwarts' ghosts (though they're not nearly so powerful nor 
are
> they evil!).  Something kept Sir Nicholas and the other ghosts from
> accepting death.  Sir Nicholas says that it was fear that kept him
> from truly dying:

imamommy:
Hmmm.  Part of my religious convictions include the belief that there 
are two kinds of death, physical and spiritual, and that sin is what 
causes spiritual death, death meaning being cut off from the 
prescence of God.  What you said here, Sophie, made me think of a 
quote from CoS.  I don't have the book here, but something about Sir 
Nicholas being only petrified by the Basilisk, the point was made 
that since he was a ghost he couldn't die again.

So, I guess my point is maybe Voldie's spirit didn't die because 
something he had done had already made him spiritually dead, not 
nonexistent, but cut off from the rest of humanity, and because his 
spirit was not properly alive, it could not be killed?

Just hazarding a guess,
imamommy