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http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4830468/1/"The reason why we are sending you back is due to the fact that you did not die properly." Said the old man like he was saying you answered a question wrong.
Meanwhile Harry was thinking that the old man was off his rocker. Die properly? You can't die anymore properly than getting hit by the Avada Kedavra curse.
"I see that you are confused. Let me explain and you will understand. On October 31, 1981 Tom Riddle came to your place of residence with the intention of killing all the inhabitants inside. He managed to kill your father and made his way upstairs. Your mother pleaded with him to spare you and take her instead. Her exact words were "Kill me instead" and he agreed but then after he killed her he turned his wand on you with the intent to kill you. He prepared the Horcrux ritual and sent the killing curse at you. To properly separate a soul into pieces cold blooded murder is necessary because with murder the soul becomes unstable for a few minutes. Only the killing curse can be used in the Horcrux ritual since it deals with destroying the soul. Anyway….."
"Wait. What do you mean it destroys the soul?"
"The Avada Kedavra curse was specifically created to be used in the Horcrux ritual. When a person is hit by a killing curse their soul is pushed out of the body and once it is separated from its essence that person dies. There is no anchor to hold the soul to the body. That is why there are never any physical signs on the body. The killing curse deals with removing the spirit of a person from its body. Like I was saying, once the killing curse is cast in conjunction to the Horcrux ritual the soul of the person hit does not die right away instead the soul hit with the killing curse is then used to cut a piece of the soul off and place it in a container. That is one of the main reasons why Tom Riddle did the ritual on situations he deemed important to him."
"Fortunately for you Tom Riddle did not take into account the rules of magic concerning contracts. He by accident placed himself in a contract with your mother right before he killed her. He made a deal with her by agreeing to kill her and not you though not in those words but the intent was clear. Magic focuses on the intent first then the words second. It was a last ditch effort by your mother who wasn't even sure if it would work. By breaching the contract he violated the terms and magic decided to exact the appropriate amount of punishment. It reflected back the killing curse at Tom Riddle causing him to lose his body. But at the time he was in the middle of the ritual and it could not be stopped. The soul fragment he cut had to go somewhere and your body was the only thing available. You see your soul was still attached to your body because he never fully finished the ritual and that allowed you to go back into your body albeit with an extra passenger."
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