[HPFGU-Movie] naming He-who-must-not-be-named

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/1/2004 7:33:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:

OK...now  shoot me if I've totally lost the storyline somewhere...but Tom
Riddle (in  COS) was a real "mudblood" who went to Hogwarts in the 50's.
Later he  becomes evil, and changes his persona to Lord Voldemort. When  Harry
discovers him through the diary, Tom had trapped his young self in  the
diary. But he and Lord V. are one and the same, am I right? So why did  he
turn so hideous? Can we assume that when he killed Harry's parents he  was a
handsome "older" Tom Riddle, then after tangling with Harry,  he
disintegrated into the hideous creature that we saw in SS? Then why does  he
become a short, grotesque, monster in GOF? Because he lost his  parasitic
relationship with Quirrel and that's all that was  left?


Tom's working on Dark Magic for so many years, and working on ways  to keep 
from dying (he thinks dying is the worst possible thing -- in OoP,  Dumbledore 
tells him "there are worse things than dying" and Voldemort says  nothing's 
worse than dying), he's changed himself from the handsome young man he  was into 
something grotesque and horrible -- but still tall (remember when Harry  
"inhabited" him in his dreams and realised he was much taller than usual?   And 
other descriptions of him describe him as tall).  Tom Riddle became  Lord 
Voldemort, yes.  When he killed Harry's parents, he'd been doing  whatever he's been 
doing to become immortal for many years (around 40, since he  was at 
Hogwart's 50 years before Ginny found the diary in Harry's second year --  V. would've 
been around 76 years old in normal years the year Ginny found the  diary, so 
he would've been 11 years younger when he killed James and Lily, or 65  
"normal" years old).  He lost his body when his killing curse rebounded off  of baby 
Harry and maintained his "life force" by reducing his life mass, I  suppose 
you could say -- inhabiting rats and snakes and so forth, and Professor  
Quirrel, as well, drinking unicorn's blood and doing whatever other spells he  could 
manage wandless to keep himself going.  That "ugly baby" thing we saw  in GoF 
before the spell was cast that brought back his body was essentially  
Voldemort's "essence," I think.  Too bad nobody had the guts to smash it  when it was 
that small and helpless (not that it was entirely helpless -- we did  see him 
casting spells in that state via Harry's visions).

Yes, I've spent WAY too much time reading HP books!!   :-D  And I can't see 
anyone like the Finnes guy being him EXCEPT for the  tall, thin build and 
angular face -- I think the makeup department can do a lot  with that to make him 
look like V should look.  

Lynda

"The cat's among the pixies now." Mrs. Figg,  OoP




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