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

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 139685

On 9/6/05, ibchawz <ibchawz at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> ibchawz:
> 
> What about Harry destroying the Tom Riddle's diary in COS? I thought 
> the diary was the first Horcrux (thus containing the first part of TR's 
> soul). He essentially killed the almost re-born Riddle to save Ginny's 
> life by destroying the diary. Yet Dumbledore tells Harry that he is 
> still pure of heart. 
> 
> My question is: What happens to the soul fragment once the Horcurx is 
> destroyed? 
> 
> Is that part of the soul destroyed? Is it released to rejoin with the 
> original person to whom the soul belongs? Could it be released to go 
> to "the next great adventure"?

 Kemper now
 
If it does rejoin the body, I think the soul is still split from the 
original. However, I don't think it 'rejoins' the body at all. 

I wondered earlier in the thread whether destroying the soul is wrong/evil. 
But after I posted it, I started wondering if it was even possible to 
destroy the soul.

What is the soul? I don't know, but I'm going to presume, as there's an 
absence of proof, that the soul is energy. According to the Conservation Law 
of Energy: energy is neither created nor destroyed. Energy can be converted, 
though: Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy, Electrical Energy to Heat Energy 
to Mechanical Energy, or other combinations. This does not mean that Energy 
can't be divided.

Say Voldemort has an apple (soul), Voldemort murders somebody and his apple 
(soul) is splits in half. Voldemort holds together the split apple (soul) 
out in front of him. If the two halves fell, the kinetic energy would be, to 
make it easy, 1 unit of energy. If, however, Voldemort dropped only one of 
the halves of the apple (soul), the falling half apple (soul) would have a 
1/2 unit of energy.

So if it's not possible to destroy energy, and therefore any part of the 
soul. What happens to the parts of Voldemort's soul that were in the Diary 
and the Ring? I think those soul parts returned to their energy source. Not 
Voldemort... THE source: whatever that source may be: God, the Universe, 
Anything.


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