Soul Bits

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 150904

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, yahoo at ... wrote:
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> On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Donna wrote:
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> > Donna here:
> >
> > What I'm wondering about is:  How can a soul be destroyed  
> > by another human?  I know that LV split his soul into 7 pieces,  
> > encapsulating 6 in other objects (horcruxes) and retaining 1 in  
> > himself.  I can see how destroying a horcrux can release the part  
> > of a soul contained in it so that that part of the soul can go  
> > whereever souls go, but can a soul or part of a soul be destroyed?  
> > Is there canon for the soul being destroyed along with the horcrux?

Steve in Chicago:
> On the subject of souls... there is another place where souls are  
> mentioned in the HP universe... Dementors, who can both feed on you  
> long enough to make you 'soul-less'... but also that by doing the  
> dementor's kiss, can suck out a person's soul. From here, I'm  
> guessing that you can say that a soul is NOT everlasting, and that it  
> can be consumed, and also destroyed.

Geoff:
This fits in perfectly with the real world.

Jesus is quoted, both in Matthew and Mark as saying "What good will it be for a man if he 
gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?"

This is precisely the road down which Voldemort is going.....

He is certainly aiming for the first but, perhaps unknwingly, setting himself up for the 
second outcome.