Horcruxes and AKs: A theory of everything?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 191215






--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <geoffbannister123 at ...> wrote:
 
> So. When the Avada Kedavra backfired on Voldemort and he was 
> disembodied, why did one fragment - a single fragment - among all 
> the others escape to go to Harry and not disappear into a 
> non-corporeal form as did the others?

zanooda:

I remember, when we discussed this before, someone came up with the idea that, while a murder does rip a soul, the resulting soul bit doesn't get entirely separated from the rest of the soul until placed into an object using the Horcrux-creating spell. 

Whoever came up with this theory suggested that the ripped soul was somewhat like a roll of toilet paper: it is torn to pieces (kind of :-)), but the pieces are not separated from one another yet. When we need a piece, we tear away the one at the end of the roll. 

The same thing with the ripped apart soul: the soul bits don't float around independently, but all stay together, seemingly in one piece, and at Godric's Hollow only the last, the most freshly cut bit of soul got separated from the whole. I'm not sure that this is how it really works, but I find a certain logic in this theory :-).