Fwd: Re: Harry as a Non-crux - Soul Pieces in Context

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 157945

--- doug rogers <dougsamu at golden.net> wrote:
> 
> bboyminn:
> Since, the Free Soul Piece are not embodied, they do
> not act as anchors to hold Voldemort to the earth. 
> They are simply waiting around until it is possible 
> for all aspect of the soul to cross over.
> 
> Doug:
> So Voldemort, despite parcelling out bits of himself,
> has 100% soul, not 1/7th or 1/64th... ?
> and Voldemort can continue to draw on the power of
> his complete  soul... hmmm...
> 
> I have heard this idea expressed one other place.
> generally it has been thought that once a soul bit 
> has been 'freed' from it's  embodiment it moves on.
> 
> Why are Humans the only primates with chins and
> nuclear weapons?
>
> Doug

Steve:

Yes, 100% of Voldemort's soul does /exist/ (I
speculate) but he has separated himself from 6 parts
of it, so while they exist, he does not have access to
them or to any soulful power they might give him. That
is, any power beyond what he gains from them as
Horcruxes. 

Voldemort has access to the faction of a soul that
inhabits his physical body, the other soul-bits have
bodies of their own or are 'free floating' waiting for
the moment when the whole soul is free to cross over. 

Also, we don't really know the 'divide'. Voldemort's
Core-Soul is one of seven parts, but we don't know
that it is one seventh of his soul. 

It is possible that the soul-bits he separated were
just small corners torn off at the edges by the act of
murder. It is also possible that with each death his
soul was torn in half, so that the one of seven parts
that inhabit his body, is really one half of one half
of one half of one half of etc..., so that the
remaining part is a very minor part of the whole. 

Again, we really don't have enough information to
assign sizes to the parts, but it is clear that the
Core-Soul is significant in that it is the Self-Soul,
the part that contains Voldemort's earthly identity
and sense of Self.

Remember that the Diary Horcrux was give the identity
of Tom's 16 year old self as a separate action. The
fact that that bit of soul return with Tom's identity
doesn't mean that identity was contained in the
soul-bit. 

I think it is unfair to call the Core-Soul the seventh
part of his soul. It is actually the first and most
significant part of his soul, and the other six are
just torn off bits. So we have the Core and six bits,
and not seven parts; admittedly a subtle distinction.

Just making it up as I go along.

Steve/bboyminn