Death Eating, Horcruxes, and Potterverse Souls (was: Sadistic Teachers )

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 148179

> Neri:
> Now, let us assume that in the Potterverse, when you are really 
scared
> of something, you lose a tiny part of your soul. This would be
> consistent with what we are told about the dementors (at last! It
> really annoyed me that there seemed to be no connection between 
souls
> in the Horcruxes story and souls in the dementors story). So 
dementors
> actually feast on souls all the time, but usually in small chunks.
> They make you scared and depressed in order to leech on something 
of
> your soul. Only when they get really hungry they suck the whole 
thing
> at once, kind of like eating the whole chicken when you get tired 
of
> the eggs. So the DE's, lacking some of their soul and feeling 
hungry
> and empty, became something like human dementors. This is why they 
put
> a big Dark Mark above the house whenever they kill. Anybody who 
sees
> the Mark get scared, and tiny bits of soul are sucked through the 
Dark
> Mark sign into the scars on the DEs hands.
> 
> Of course, this would mean the Death Eaters should have been more
> properly called Soul Eaters. But maybe JKR felt that this would be 
a
> giveaway, so she invented the dementors instead. 
> 
> Or maybe she just liked the name.
> 

a_svirn:

[Enters a DE]

DE:	I wouldn't spurn a hearty dish
        Of rice, or fruit, or flesh or fish,
        Yet what I crave above them all
        Is a nutritious, healthy soul!
        Live souls are better than the dead
        Because they're emanating dread
        And much more tricky sort of game.
        But then again, what's in a name?!
        "Death-Eater" sounds somewhat harsh,
        But not without certain dash!