Killing tears the soul apart redux. WAS: Re: Snape's penance?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 139617

Kemper:
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> To add to the discussion... Is taking the life 
> just physical? What about the victim's soul? Is 
> destroying a soul evil?

houyhnhnm:

I'm glad someone brough this up.  The conventional WW, which
delicately refrains from killing the body with an AK (except for
Crouch, Sr.), seems to have few qualms about sentencing someone to
have their soul sucked out, often without the briefest nod to due process.

We know Dumbledore does not concur, though, because of his many
expressions of detestation for the dementors and his disapproval of
the Ministry's alliance with such creatures.