Did Severus Murder

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183210

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie"
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
 
> Not to say that Snape has murdered anybody, but I think he could 
> still be concerned for his soul if it had been torn before. It's not 
> just the first murder that tears it. Presumably every murder tears 
> it. If he had killed somebody and it was painful that might give him 
> more reason to not want it to happen again.
 
> Which makes me wonder if you can do anything to make it whole again 
> or at least heal it. Does it affect your experience in the afterlife 
> if it's torn once, twice or a number of times? Can you fix that 
> through remorse?


I don't know about the afterlife, but I believe that it's very
possible to repair the soul through remorse. According to Hermione (or
rather, to  the "Secrets of the Darkest Art" :-)), even a soul a part
of which was used to make a Horcrux *is* repairable, although "the
pain of it can destroy you" (p.103). If a soul is split by a murder,
but the torn piece is not concealed inside a Horcrux, it would be
certainly easier to repair this damaged soul! 

The soul bit inside a Horcrux is bound to it by some powerful spell,
so it's understandable why it would be "excruciatingly painful" to try
and return this bit to its rightful place and make the soul whole
again. Still, it's possible, if we are to believe the "Secrets of the
Darkest Art". This means that if a murderer didn't make a Horcrux,
it's even more realistic to make the torn piece part of the soul
again, if the murderer sincerely repented and payed for his crime.
That's what I think, anyway :-).


zanooda