Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-29414935-20170112200520/@comment-5653781-20170112205007

the soul can never be fully destroyed, no media I've ever seen can truly have the "destroy souls" thing - if souls exist in a setting they are pretty much unable to be destroyed.. the explosion likely signified he was dead and his soul was banished (like when Frollo falls into molten lead, it signified he was dead and damned but his soul would still exist, just eternally "banished").

(basically a soul can never be destroyed but it can be banished (even Voldemort is technically still around, as close as Harry Potter got even that media never had souls being fully destroyed - Voldemort is eternally "banished" but his soul is still around (if unable to ever interact with the universe).)