Destroying soul bits

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 141941


> zgirnius:
> First, killing Voldemort (or any other person) I would presume does 
> not kill the soul. While this has not been explicitly stated in the 
> books, the soul in Christianity (most likely the source of JKR's 
> ideas about the soul) is the thing that lives on after someone dies. 


Personally, I by no means sure that this mutilated "thing" that "lives 
on" after the loss of its host can be called a soul in a Christian 
sense. If indeed Christianity is the source for Rowling's inspiration 
on the subject of horcruces it must be a very warped form of 
Christianity. 
a_svirn