Death and magic

[scarletsorceress666]

> Monika wrote:
> 
> I think  "worse than death" means ... 


SS replied:

Perhaps DD meant that for LV there is something worse then being dead 
and that is living in a world that doesn't function on his hate 
filled twisted philosophy. To lose the battle for the philosophy of 
WW to 
love and honour and have to stay alive to watch that world grow and 
flourish, but never be able to understand it. Would be worse then 
dying, which would be swift painful moment and then over for all 
time. 

To my way of thinking this is DD's mission to totally destroy LV's 
philosophy through Harry and not through magic, which we know that LV 
and Harry are equal in. Once he destroys that way of thinking, then 
even if LV stays alive he is ineffectual, but LV couldn't stay alive 
in that kind of world anyway.
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> 
> > Eloise Wrote:
 
> My feeling is that if the soul is just consumed by the Dementor, 
ceases to  
> be, enters oblivion, then it isn't as bad an end as if it had to 
face some kind 
>  of post mortem retribution.
>   
> 

>SS Replied:

JK described the Dementors as the manifestation of depression, not 
just feeling a little off, but clinical depression, which leaves you 
without any desire for life in anyway. This normally requires drug 
therapy, if you look at the dementors kiss, it could be seen as the 
drug treatment therapy, which leaves you completely dead, yes you 
function but you no longer have any responses to life at all, you 
don't even feel the depression. Which at least before the drugs
you 
did feel tired, sleepy, angry, tearful, after the drugs even that is 
removed, you just seem to spend a great deal of time smiling sweetly 
and staring straight-ahead.

I can associate more with this version of the dementors than the soul 
swallowing one, as having a soul requires a belief in another life, 
and that requires a faith, not all people have a faith, not just a 
religious faith, but also any spiritual faith, but all beings are 
subjected to depression.