Harry Potter Soulstealer

[Grunt]

Well, this is just a little idea I want to get out of my head.

What if Voldemorts attack didn't just backfire like in canon. Instead it actually stole half of harry's soul, gave it to Voldemort and enabled him to survive his rebounding spell as a ghost of sorts.

Since his soul is now imcomplete, young Harry's magical core tries to find a way to fix his soul and it finds one by stealing the souls of other people. Through eye-contact over a certain amount of time, he is able to rip someones soul out of their body.

Sadly that won't help him, since he didn't do any dark rituals which would have allowed him to actually eat those souls. So all the people who die by having their soul stolen, stay near him, strangely bound to him and unable to leave.

Also there is only one person that is safe from his eyes. His aunt. She is protected by the blood magic that keeps harry safe.

Actually the thought of young Harry ripping out the greater part of Dudley's soul, which makes the remaining Dudley just plain evil and leaving Harry with a sort of good consience named Dudley II sounds strangely amusing. :evil:


Well, what do you think? Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

 

[nuclear death frog]

It would be quite ironic if Voldemort survived by stealing part of Harry's soul, since in canon it's established that he survived by fractioning off his own soul. After a while he'd realize that he's turned Harry into, essentially, a not-as-split version of himself, and that he's made Harry effectively immortal as well, since Voldemort sure wouldn't give up that fraction of soul that he stole, and he won't be able to kill Harry now because part of Harry's soul would remain earthbound. He can't win; he's just created an eternal stalemate.

 

[zeebee1]

What's to stop him from destroying Harry's body? Since as far as I know all horcruxes do is make it possible to be ressurected.

 

[nuclear death frog]

What's to stop him from destroying Harry's body? Since as far as I know all horcruxes do is make it possible to be ressurected.

All that'll do is make Harry into the vaporous essence that Voldemort was for over a decade in canon; it won't kill him. Voldemort is paranoid, he wouldn't settle for something like that. There would still be niggling doubts in his mind; that's why he became obsessed with the prophecy once he'd heard part of it. It's the same type of fear/paranoia.

 

[zeebee1]

Yes, wouldn't he come to the conclusion that a ghost Harry could do less damage then a living Harry?

 

[nuclear death frog]

Yes, wouldn't he come to the conclusion that a ghost Harry could do less damage then a living Harry?

Doubtful. Any chance at all of him (Voldemort) being destroyed, he would consider anathema to him, and fear the possibility. Fear of death is what inspired him to make so many Horcruxes in the first place; so that if he lost one or two, he'd still be effectively immortal because he's not limited to the piece of his soul contained in his own body. That's part of why Dumbledore thinks Voldemort wouldn't find immortality via Elixir of Life to be acceptable; the elixir could run out, or be tainted, or the stone could be lost or destroyed; and without the elixir (but with a complete soul) Voldemort would die like anyone else.

 

[boghi8462]

While not completly on par with your idea, The Power by DarthBill (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2772010/1/) is close. Harry is able to steal magic. First from the environement, then from enchanted of magical objects, then from creatures. I believe that it isn't much till he would start on people. He didn't implement the basilisk stare in full for fear that it would be permanent, but if I remember the later chapters, he could call up the dementor's aura.

I could be mistaken, cuz it's been some time since I've read it, and the later chapters were not on par with the first ones. The story has begun to slowly go downhill. Shame realy...