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Why does Harry think that his parents are gone?
Chapter 16 of Deathly Hallows give us this nice little touch, showing that Harry believes his parents to be well and truly gone:
But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty ...
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How does the soul split when making multiple Horcruxes? [duplicate]
My question is regarding the size of the torn soul portions - are all the portions equal size? If yes how could it be? The soul doesn't know how many times it's going to be split.
There are two ways;
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Can one person have multiple souls?
When Voldemort tried to kill Harry in the first book, a fragment of his soul split off and continued to live in Harry. Harry had his own whole soul and the part of Voldemort's soul in him from then on....
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Why didn't Voldemort's soul attach to any other living thing except Harry?
We know that when the Killing curse rebounded on Lord Voldemort, it split a portion of his soul which latched on to the only other living thing in the room - Harry. My question is, are we to assume ...
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Shouldn't Avada Kedavra be just like the Dementor's Kiss?
From what I've seen about it, the way Avada Kedavra kills you is by blowing apart your soul. My evidence for this is in three parts:
When the Killing Curse rebounds on Lord Voldemort the first time, ...
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Why didn't the soul inside Voldemort's body die when he tried to kill Harry?
In Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore says,
"...the Killing Curse rebounded on Lord Voldemort, and a fragment of Lord Voldemort's soul was blasted apart from the whole, and latched itself onto the only ...
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Do Phoenixes have souls?
In Harry Potter universe, do Phoenixes have souls?
Canon based answers only please.
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Does each new Horcrux take half of Voldemort's remaining soul, thus taking a smaller piece each time?
When you commit a murder and create a Horcrux, you split your soul. It’s been talked a lot about Voldemort splitting his soul in 7/8 parts. But I think his remaining soul was not 1/7 or 1/8 but far ...
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What is the functional effect of splitting one's soul?
In Harry Potter we learn that Voldemort has split his soul via the Horcruxes and Slughorn mentions it as if it is a negative thing.
What are the actual problems caused by splitting one’s soul?
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What happens if you release a soul from a Horcrux/container?
Pursuant to this question, if you were to free a soul from the Horcrux or another container (i.e. Harry) without destroying the soul, what would happen to it?
This is what appear to happen to ...
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