Why Didn't DD or Snape kill Voldemort?

[doug rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 152560

> Steven1965aaa:
>
> If you "kill" him first, you could then go after the horcruxes 
> at your leisure.  But even after you got rid of all the horcruxes, 
> there would still be 1 soul piece left, the piece that was in VM 
> when you "killed" him. He would not be "vanquished".


doug rogers:

Well... no.....

If the horcruxes are anchors so the main soul doesn't pass on, like  
the tethers to a hot air balloon, or multiple anchors on a ship, 
once the horcruxes are destroyed the main soul has no anchor, unless 
it has found a body to be in, to act as a horcrux, but as you say:

> VM would again be floating around Albania or
> somewhere, trying to possess rats and snakes.  Eventually he'd come
> back, albeit severely weakened by the destruction of his horocruxes.

Embodied, the soul is earthbound. Disembodied, the soul passes on.  
Once the body that that soul inhabits dies the soul moves on.

Admittedly, the timing would be dicey on behalf of both parties.  
Voldysoul would likely pass on as soon as he left a body to inhabit  
another.

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