Splitting the Soul (was: Voldemort killed personally)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 157450

bboyminn:

> Voldemort's Core-Soul remains earthbound, anchored by 
> the Soul-Bits. Logically, the Soul-Bits are equally earth-
> bound anchored by the /other/ Soul-Bit and by the Core-
> Soul. The Soul does want to remain in one piece, or if 
> not one piece then at least all together. So, no part 
> of the Soul can or will leave this earthly life unless 
> the rest of the Soul come with.

Ceridwen:
I'm taking just this part because it gave me ideas.  What if Harry 
doesn't have to do anything more to vanquish LV than release all six 
soul bits?  I think the soul bits will want to move on to wherever 
souls are at home without their bodies.  It's perfectly possible that 
they can only go so far, like the ghosts, while another, heavier, 
piece of soul or pieces of soul, hold them back.

Since LV split his soul into seven pieces, equal or not, and removed 
six of them, maybe this is a real danger to the core soul piece still 
inside, or still being, LV.  As pieces of soul are removed, the core 
soul gets 'lighter'.  But, since there are anchors in the forms of 
other soul bits encased in objects (I see them as something like tent 
pegs), the core soul remains anchored or bound to the earth.

In this idea, each soul piece that is liberated from its container 
will try to find a home.  A nearby warm body would do, but the 
perfect place for a bodiless soul is the Afterlife, and this is where 
the soul bits will want to go.  They can't get there in pieces, but 
as each soul bit is freed, it joins the others which are already 
free, tugging at the core soul delicately to try and get it to join 
them.  A body's fine temporarily, but that isn't a soul's final home.

So, maybe all that needs to be done is for Harry to release the six 
soul bits from their containers, and the sheer weight of six against 
one will pull the core soul from LV and, as a whole entity again, his 
soul will pass beyond the veil.  This will leave a body for people to 
examine and to see, to prove beyond any doubt that LV is dead, and 
which will be laid to rest, to the closure of the entire WW.

Ceridwen, speculating.