Putting the "Whore" Back In "Horcrux": Splitting the Soul

Voldemort: To obtain badass immortality, he split his soul seven times. When he was done, the soul he called his own was a tiny, sickly, sniveling thing.There’s a transaction that happens when you invest your self, your soul, in a person or thing. You give it power over you. And only by killing that thing stone dead are you able to retrieve what it was you lost. Killing it requires at the least that you perform the sacrificial act yourself. You can’t have it taken away, you can’t cling to the hope that it will survive. You have to risk death to your soul to retrieve it.

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Untangling Cliché: "Spirit" / "Soul"

Updated on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 8:14AM by Otter

[The ancient languages were] richly poetic in that sense, but at the same time capable of almost scientific exactitude: they simply express their knowledge in words that engage the imagination, a region of the mind a little different from the one you and I habitually use as we lay "spirit" and "soul" on the table and demand a declaration of their taxons.

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