Just want to ask about Horcruxes...

[doug rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 170838

> Lantis:
> I just want to ask (J.K. Rowling, if possible) what would happen if
> Voldemort somehow confided part of his soul in a phoenix like Fawkes?
> would he be totally immortal, seeing that one of his Horcruxes  
> won't be
> destroyed?

Well, in one reading of the Phoenix legend, Fawkes' body is  
completely destroyed, and Fawkes is reborn from an egg. Not  the same  
'body'. Another version of the Phoenix has the thing reborn from the  
ashes and flames.

Inherent in either version is the sense that the body, being the  
container, is destroyed, purified, cleansed, and started again anew.   
Various religious and psychological systems would read all of this  
symbolically in different ways.

If Fawkes were to contain a horcruxed portion of soul, the precedent  
in the books is that when body/container is destroyed, the soul  
portion is also.

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