Next, Conquer Magical Power!

After devouring the souls of three Death Eaters, the Dementors drifted away leisurely. They hovered above Azkaban Prison like loyal guards watching over the gates of hell, their evil presence chilling to the bone.

The execution was over! Scrimgeour led the Aurors forward. After briefly checking on the Death Eaters' condition, he said expressionlessly, "Take them back!"

Several Aurors drew their wands and levitated the bodies of the three Death Eaters...

Or were they merely bodies?

These Death Eaters were not truly dead in the strictest sense. Their bodies were still alive; they had merely lost their souls.

Did that count as death? Andy could not say for sure.

In the world of magic, bodies decayed, but souls did not. As long as the soul remained, it was not true death.

Where had the Death Eaters' souls gone? At the instant the Dementors devoured them, Andy had sensed the aura of the Death Dimension.

So... had the souls gone to the Death Dimension?

At that moment, Andy thought once again of Dumbledore's words: To the well-organized mind, death was but the next great adventure!

What exactly was death? Did the death of the body count as true death? Or could one only be considered truly dead once the soul had gone to the Death Dimension? More than ten years ago, Voldemort had been struck by his rebounded Killing Curse, and many had said that Voldemort was dead.

But Dumbledore had said that Voldemort had merely lost his power.

He had become a Wandering Soul!

A Wandering Soul was different from a ghost.

Ghosts were truly dead! Though they could remain in the world for a long time, to ghosts, that was a torment even crueler than death.

And what was a soul? Why could a soul be immortal? Too many