Anagrams; Soul & Mind

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Judy wrote:
> Well, Lupin definitely seems to be saying that the soul and the 
mind 
> are the same thing.  But then, how can Lord Voldemort retain all 
his 
> powers and memories, as Dumbledore says he does, if his has ripped 
> his soul into small pieces and has hardly any of it left? 

Neri:
Well, the memories can be duplicated. You can write a memory in a 
diary and it doesn't eliminate the copy you have in your, er... soul. 
Apparently the powers can be duplicated too, since both Voldy (what's 
left of him, anyway) and his ripped soul part in Hx!Diary can speak 
parseltongue. Presumably what cannot be duplicated (and thus suffers 
when the soul is ripped) is the moral part and the self (I suspect 
the self *can* actually be duplicated, but then the second self will 
diverge from the original one, so as a copying process it's, erm... 
self-defeating). Anyway, Voldy can split the moral part of his soul 
and the memories and powers part just get duplicated. It's a bit 
complicated but it seems to work.

And I too suspect JKR didn't thought it through, but this doesn't 
hurt Unintentional Harrycrux. There's a Jewish saying: "if God so 
desires, even a broom can shoot". In the Potterverse, if JKR so 
desires, then a just-ripped piece of soul, complete with (at least 
some) duplicated powers and memories, can be released when the body 
is destroyed and find its way into another body through an AK-
inflicted wound. It's magic.

Neri