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A couple of months ago, I made a video discussing the fate of Voldemort after his final defeat in the Deathly Hallows.

And although Voldemort's death looks fairly different from book to film,

disintegrating into a thousand pieces in the films and simply falling to the ground with mundane

finality in the books, one thing remained the same. Voldemort's soul was completely and utterly

destroyed, and unquestionably this was due to his pursuit of Hawkerxes. By repeatedly tearing

his soul apart, splitting it again and again in the name of immortality,

Voldemort ensured that when death finally came for him, there was simply nothing whole left to survive it.

And his soul, repeatedly mutilated beyond recognition, was incapable of moving on, forcing him to remain a broken fragment trapped in a state of eternal limbo.

But it is the thing. Although creating Hawkerxes is a sure-fire way to destroy the state of your soul,

it's important to remember that it's not the only way. And this brings into question the fate of some of the other characters in this series.

In particular, a character with a fairly dubious past, Albus Dumbledore.

Today we'll be unpacking the fate of our favourite Hogwarts headmaster post-mortem, in an effort to see whether Dumbledore's end was truly as peaceful as it first appears.

Let's dive into it.

Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.

Before we dive too far into this, the first thing I'd like to touch on are the circumstances surrounding Dumbledore's death, because it was nothing like Voldemort's.

Long before he ever stepped onto the Astronomy Tower, Dumbledore knew exactly how and when he would die,

and more importantly, who would be responsible?

He arranged the circumstances, accepted the curse already consuming him, and chose to meet death on his own terms.

Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.

Avara cadavera!

A jet of green light shot from the end of Snape's wand and hit Dumbledore squarely in the

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