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

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 139858

 Kemper wrote earlier:
> <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."

  msbeadsley responded:

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?

  Kemper now:
 My impression of the 'breeding' of Dementors was that a Dementor is 
created/conceived by sucking out the soul of its victim. So the soul isn't 
destroyed; it is transformed. Going with the Conservation Law of Energy 
model up-thread with regards to the Soul, the Soul is converted to a 
Dementor.
 Makes me wonder what Snape's other way of dealing with Dementor's is. The 
Patronus is a wonderful charm for pushing Dementors away, it doesn't really 
defeat them in the long run. What if Snape's other way of dealing with 
Dementors converts/transforms/transfigures the Dementor back to a Soul? This 
way could be more dangerous because of the magic involved, distance 
required, or something else: making Harry think that the Patronus is a 
better option for many of the students.
 Kemper


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