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

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 139834

Kemper wrote:
 <snip> "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. <snip> 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."

I thought it was a lovely premise, but something about it bothered me,
and I finally came up with it: the dementors. They feed on emotion and
they suck out souls. IIRC, they seem to be eager to do both, or
either. If sucking out a soul meant only that it was released to
return to the Collective Soul (sorry 'bout that, music lovers) and
resulted in no payoff for them, why would they bother?

Sandy aka msbeadsley

P.S. Another other thing dementors do has me dreading writing a filk
now that the title has occurred to me: "Foggy Went A Courtin'"