CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter

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> 	3.	If Dementor can suck a person's soul from them, does it mean that Potterverse does not believe in souls' immortality? If a Dementor dies somehow, would the soul be released? Lupin tells Harry that a soul is gone forever, lost. Where is it lost in your opinion?

	This is interesting because we know from Deathly Hallows that physical actions cannot damage souls.  We know from the Half-Blood Prince that souls can be damaged nonphysically.  I noticed an hierarchy in the the Potterverse:

	0	Living people
	1	Souls.
	2	Horcruxes
	3	Ghosts
	4	Portraits
	5	Magical photographs

	If dementors can digest souls, perhaps a permanent afterlife does not exist in the wizarding world.  Perhaps everything is mortal and temporary.  As Georg Hrab says, “Everything alive will by someday.”.  As Mark Twain points out, this may not be a bad thing:

	“I do not fear death.  I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

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	Mark Twain