LV & the Avada Kedavra

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 159333

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
> 
> Voldemort's remote soul-bits still have functioning bodies
> so they are not going to pass on to the afterlife if some
> other part of the soul loses its body. As long as those
> soul-bits have functioning bodies, Voldemort's core soul
> will not pass over into the afterlife. It remains earth-
> bound.
> 
> When Harry has destroyed the bodies of the soul-bits, then
> there is nothing to hold Voldemort's soul to the earth.
> In the final event, when Voldemort's body is destroyed,
> his soul will cross over into the afterlife and that will
> be the end of the identity know as Tom Riddle/Voldemort.
> 
> For the record, it is my belief that it is the Horcruxes,
> teh /bodies/, that Harry has to destroy, not the soul-bits
> contained within. Those soul-bits are eternal, when 
> released they are free of their physical body but unable 
> to cross over without the other soul-bit; they are /free/ 
> but still earth-bound. They are what I refer to a 
> free-roaming souls. They are still on earth but in no way 
> provide Voldemort with any protection from death. As soon 
> as Voldemort's body can be effectively destroyed, all the
> soul-bit cross over into the afterlife at once.

Yes that does make perfect sense. I suppose I am still a little 
unsure as to how the soul piece within the diary was being used to 
create a new body for Tom Riddle, but I'm probably thinking about it 
a bit too much!!

Brothergib