The Dementor Solution

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 151306

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> On the otherhand, again discounting Voldemort for a moment, if the
> soul lives on in a kind of Dementor Purgatory, trapped inside the
> Dementor while the Dementor feeds on the emotions of the soul. That
> works better, because Voldemorts eternal soul would be trapped 
inside the Dementor. It wouldn't matter whether Harry found and 
destroyed all the Horcruxes, because their existance only keeps 
Voldemort's soul earth-bound, and that is exactly what being kissed 
by the Dementor would do. 
> 
>(Snip)
> This would be away for Harry to destroy Voldemort without having to
> become a killer himself. Further, in a dark and sad way, Voldemort
> gets his wish, he will now live earth-bound forever, but sadly he 
will do so not with freewill and free volition, but eternally 
trapped in a Dementor. I'm sure that not what he had in mind.
> 
(Snipped rest of very thought provoking post)

Tonks:
Before we can ponder how LV will be destroyed I think that we must 
first determine his essence. Is he a mortal who has prolonged his 
earthly existence, but still has an eternal soul? Is LV the only 
evil?  Is he evil or Evil?  If he is the personification of Ultimate 
Evil, does he have an end? Can Evil have an end? I think we must 
first determine this before we can discuss the possibility of the 
dementor's kiss.

Then we must understand the nature of a Dementor. Are they a life 
form? If so, do they die? 

I don't think it is as easy as saying that a Dementor can just suck 
LV's soul until we know the essence of both. It would seem to me 
that LV is more powerful that even a group of Dementor's and that 
perhaps Dementor's have their existance because of his. But I have 
not thought this through completely.

Any ideas folks?

Tonks_op