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

[Valerie Flowe]

From: artsylynda at aol.com

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).

[from Valerie]
Thanks for the great synopsis! 



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