08-05-2007, 11:15 AM
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 Re: The Scaly Flaky Baby
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Originally Posted by alohamora 
Ponder on this for a bit. Something I think Neville said about sticking Voldy with a sword. If Voldy had not used magic to kill Harry in the forest, if he had throttled him or stabbed him, would Harry have come back to life? Or would he be roaming around in a wraith-like form that Voldy took the first time his BODY was destroyed? Coversely, if Voldy had been killed again using traditional non-magic means while some of his horcruxes were still intact, would his soul have left the body to find or make another body for himself as he did earlier? Or would he do a vampire and live on in a mortally wounded body?  | Considering what Hermione said, I think if Voldemort's body died by being physically mortally wounded beyond redeemability (say, decapitation versus a heart attack, or maybe even strangling) it would have the same effect as having been hit by an AK, and his soul (or what was left of it) could find/make another body for himself. Conversely, I think that since Harry and Voldemort's souls share the connection Harry's soul would not be able to leave, even if his body died from wounds. We don't know if having a whole soul reenter a body would... kickstart? it back up, I think it would depend on the injury. The AK is actually useful in that sense because Harry's body is unharmed except in that it is dead (if that makes sense). For instance, I think if Harry had a nonlethal wound and then died from AK, he would come back but still have to deal with the wound. I'm unsure if this would work with a lethal wound, but the idea of a whole, bodiless soul tethered to earth would be the result.  Gah, this is confusing.
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