Talk:Vera Moray/@comment-99.232.69.45-20130217143304/@comment-50.72.7.72-20130301063113

The cameo in question was also a phylactery, which is an item a lich uses to store their soul and keep it safe from harm. While it exists, it's impossible to kill the lich.

For further information, see 'horcrux'; J.R.R. Tolkien took heavily from old German stories about Liches when she made Voldemort's form of immortality whether she meant to or not.