LV's Offence of the Dark Arts - OODA 301

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 170362

Lord Voldemort apperates into the classroom filled with his 
prospective Death Eaters. He gives them all his "settle down" look 
and they all go quiet, in hushed reverance. He nods his head and, in 
unison, the PDEs say, "At your command, Master".

LV: First, hand in your papers on employing the Cruciatus Curse.
Avery (from the back of the room) yells out: Goyle can't do the curse.
LV (pointing wand at Avery): *Crucio*,... OK Goyle, you try it. Use 
Avery.
Goyle: "Crukeeo".
LV: Goyle you have to point your wand at Avery, and it's "Crucio" not 
whatever it was you said. Try it again.
Goyle (wand out this time): "Croukeea"
LV: Idiot boy. You and Avery - detention, my office, tonite at 7. 
You'll be practicing the Cruciatus on each other. 

::To the Whole Class::
LV: Today we will be studying Horcruxes. First off, who can tell me 
the definition if a Horcrux?
Severus (hand waving in air): Ooh, Ooh, I know. A Horcrux is an 
object --
LV: "Silencio". You will speak when called on, Mr. Snape, and not 
until. Now, does anybody else know?
-- Silence--
LV: Alright, maybe this is too advanced for your simple minds. Let's 
start out more basic. How do you split your soul? Mr. Snape - "Finite 
Incantatum" - now you can speak.
SS (looking rather smug): Master, you split your soul by committing 
murder. And not just any killing will do, you have to purposedly kill 
someone unable to flee, defend themselves, or in any way fight back.
LV: Thank you Mr. Snape. "Crucio" - I don't want any smug looks from 
you or anybody in my classroom, understood.
Whole Class: "Yes Master"

LV: OK, splitting the soul is the first step to creating a Horcrux. 
If that's all you do is commit murder, that torn piece of soul will 
still stay in your body. ::In a quiet voice:: Now if you apply the 
four Rs, that is - Remorse, Repentence, Restitution and 
Reconciliation - you can mend that torn piece. But that's not 
something that we teach in my school. So I don't want to ever hear of 
any of you trying to apply the four Rs, not that you are really 
capable of it anyway.

Now, there is a spell that you use to remove this torn soul piece 
from your body and encase it into an object. You will not be learning 
that spell until after your O.W.L.S., that is if any of you pass 
them. I won't have just any PDE out there trying to make Horcruxes, 
it is a very advanced magic. Most of you would end up removing your 
whole soul as if you got sucked by a Dementor. I've got plenty of 
Inferi, I'm not teaching you all now just to have you become 
something like those mindless beings.

OK, who can tell me why we have to use a spell to encase the soul 
piece?
(Door bursts open - in strolls Lucius Malfoy): What did I miss?
LV: "Incarcerous" (nvbl "Levicorpus") 
A tied up and gagged Malfoy hangs above the class, upside down, with 
his silk underwear embroidered with "LM" showing.
LV: Mr. Malfoy, so gald you could join us. If you would be so kind as 
to hang around after class, I'd like a word. You can probably guess 
what word I intend to use.
LV: Back to my question, before we were so rudely interrupted by Mr. 
Malfoy, why do we need to *encase* the soul piece. Crabbe.
Crabbe: Umm, it needs to stay warm?
LV: Really, so would you say we can only use another living being as 
our Horcrux?
Crabbe: Ahh, I guess so.
LV: Alright class, listen up because this is important and I'm only 
going to say this once, NEVER use another living being as a Horcrux. 
If it can think for itself, even if it's only got a rudimentary brain 
like Mr. Crabbe here, it will never be in your complete control. If 
it goes and gets itself killed, that could kill your soul piece or it 
may easily cause the soul piece to be released, which all comes to 
the same thing - no more Horcrux.

LV: Can anybody else tell me why we *encase* the soul piece.
Nott: Master, (pauses for LV to nod at him), Master we encase the 
soul piece because otherwise it will fly off to beyond the veil and 
be lost forever.
LV: That's right. The whole purpose of a Horcrux is to anchor your 
soul to this earth. While your soul is inside your body, it's 
anchored but vulnerable. If you get killed, the soul escapes the body 
and follows it's natural inclination to go beyond the veil. If you 
take your torn piece out of your body, but don't encase it with that 
spell, it's going beyond the veil too. Once you have a Horcrux, no 
soul pieces can ever escape to beyond the veil. Good job Nott, *you* 
may kiss my robes. (Nott, looking like a better reward would have 
been to be excused from the rest of class, kisses LV's robe and sits 
back down)

Rookwood (raising his hand a getting the nod): But Master, won't you 
be in some kind of spectoral existance if you get killed with a 
Horcrux?
McNair (looking up from pulling heads off of flies under his desk): 
Cool, spectoral existance!
LV: McNair, what did I tell you about pulling heads off flies in my 
classroom?
McNair (looking sheepish): To always have a purpose for my cruelty, 
Master.
LV: That's right. What are you going to do with those dead flies?
McNair (thinking quickly): Feed them to my baby Basilisk.
LV: You hatched a Basilisk, McNair? I'm impressed!!
LV to Rookwood: Yes, Rookwood, you'll have a spectoral existance, so 
what? If you make it to N.E.W.T.S. we'll teach you how to get your 
body back. By the way, is your father still living?
Rookwood: Yes, Master.
LV: Too bad, but then again, that will just be something to work 
around.

Voldemort sits down on his nail cushioned throne, as he points his 
wand at the dangling Malfoy and thinks "Liberacorpus". Malfoy falls 
down with a crash onto Lestrange's head and LV has an evil grin 
moment. He nonverbally removes Malfoy's ropes and says, "Take a seat 
Mr. Malfoy." Then goes into his Lecture Mode. LV:

"You all know, I think, what happened to me at Godric's Hollow. (The 
distaste at saying the name "Godric" is apparant on LV's face) The AK 
I used on the Potter brat backfired and got me. All it did to the boy 
was cut him on the forehead. << "for the Avada Kedavra curse does not 
usually leave any sign of damage... The exception sits before me," 
Dumbledore added, with a nod to Harry's scar. (HBP p.366, US)>> The 
reason for the backfire was ancient magic used by the foolish mother. 
But it was my mistake that allowed the magic to work. I should have 
stunned the woman to get her out of the way, she was of no 
consequence to me. But I killed her instead."

"Mr. Snape has given you the answer about soul splitting murders. 
This murder was a soul splitting murder, one that I had not intended 
to do. So not only did my mistake cause the ancient magical 
protection to activate around the boy, but when the AK rebounded on 
me, I had just split my soul. When my body was killed, that torn soul 
piece was free and I lost it. Myself, as a disembodied soul, could 
not do any magic to recapture that torn piece. As Mr. Nott has 
explained, that loose soul piece would have gone beyond the veil, if 
I had not already had a Horcrux (adding under his breath), or so. 
Where that soul piece is now, I cannot say. It most likely sought out 
another soul to bond with or to possess. It may just have tried to 
possess the Potter brat, but I don't see how it would have penetrated 
the ancient magic."

"So class, what was my big mistake? Well, it was just as I keep 
telling Mr. McNair, always have a purpose for your cruelty. By 
killing that woman for no purpose, I lost a valuable piece of 
possible Horcrux material. Lesson learned."

The bell rings and LV stands up. As the PDEs gather their stuff,
LV: For next lesson, I want 2 rolls of parchment on suitable Horcrux 
objects and why. Oh, and read the chapter on Imperious, there will be 
a quiz. You may disapperate.

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Maybe a slightly more entertaining way to put forth my opinion on the 
mechanics of Horcrux creation and what happened at GH. 

I think LV was right in his speculation, that loose soul piece he had 
just made tried to bond with or possess Harry. But Harry's soul was 
too strong, has too much of the power the Dark Lord knows not - Love -
 and Harry's soul could not be possessed by LV's soul piece. But 
there the soul piece remains to this day, within Harry. Whether 
captured by Harry's soul or simply residing behind Harry's scar, it 
cannot go beyond the veil, so it does the next best thing and finds a 
host body. But is most definitely not destroyed.

But I don't think Harry has to be killed for this soul piece to be 
released. It wasn't encased with the Horcrux encasing spell, so it is 
only bound to this earth by the other Horcruxed soul pieces of LV.

Any questions, see me after class :D
Mike