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Originally Posted by teddylupin  Damage- but not neccessarily a seperate shard. I think damage is healable and not definitively permanent unless you actually make a Horcrux, because then what seperates anyone who has killed from Voldemort? Because I do think there is quite a large difference. |
I agree with everything, but not with the "healable". I know the story changes in DH, and we see it now from a different point of view, but even though, I still think that Dumbledore, beside his own plan with Snape and everything, before he dies, really means what he says to Malfoy, and one reason for a lot of things going on, and also for some points in his "plan" is, that he wants to protect Malfoy from killing someone. I think until his death he wants to believe in the "good side" in Draco. But he knows that once he has killed someone his soul would be damaged and the "good side" in him will be lost.
Maybe that is also one reason that he chose Snape. Not only because he is a double-agent. I think Snapes soul is already damaged. From his time as a Death-Eater he has to handle whith it.