Was Harry Draco and bathroom/Now Harry and Peter Pettigrew

[rklarreich]

No: HPFGUIDX 162857

Just a quick observation in response to a question Carol poses below:

> Carol:
> 
> So take your pick. Which is worse, having your soul sucked out so that
> you're robbed of your identity and your memories or whatever losing
> your soul entails or sitting in a cold, bleak cell in Azkaban for the
> rest of your life with only the swooping Dementors and your own
> despair and self-hatred for company?

I think in the context of the books we are meant to think that having 
your soul sucked out is worse than *anything*.  As Lupin tells Harry, 
your soul is then lost forever.  This is presented as worse than 
death:  at least when you die, your soul goes beyond the Veil, 
presumably to some sort of afterlife.  So, horrible as life in Azkaban 
is, at any rate the soul is still there and can eventually go beyond 
the Veil like everyone else's.  If it's sucked out, that's it, it's 
gone forever.  (Gone where, I wonder?  Is it snuffed out, or does it 
spend an eternity trapped inside a Dementor feeling all the horrible 
sensations it was experiencing during the kiss?  Not sure I want to 
know...)

Roberta