Voldemort's face and voice

[meckelburg at foni.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 15571

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> Does anyone else here have trouble imagining what the nearly-reborn
> Dark Lord looks and sounds like?  We know his face is "snake-like"
> but what does that mean?  The creature I've seen visually that keeps
> coming into my mind is the Genie-hating Muktaar from Disney's 
_Aladdin_
> TV series, which has a snakey face and even a snakey voice, and it 
is usually
> this face (with darker skin and contorted into even more evil 
expressions)
> that materializes in my occasional Voldy nightmares.  But is it what 
JKR
> has in mind?  And what about his voice?  Jo insists it's 
high-pitched,
> even though the Evil Dark Lord's Manual generally recommends
> a deep, Darth Vader-like voice. :)  The only truly evil guy with a 
> high-pitched
> voice that comes to mind is Alan Arkin as the #1 baddie in the movie
> _Wait Until Dark_, which doesn't seem to fit... Though I *can* hear
> him say, "Now, Now Harry, the niceities must be observed."
> 
> Anyone care to share how You-Know-Who looks and sounds in your
> own mind?
>                                                  -- Dave

I think voldy has a very deep, dark and echoing Voice in CoS and GoF 
and in future because he has a fullgrown body for resonance. When he 
has this baby-like body I'd describe it sort of like when my little 
2yeard old speaks in a hoarse, deep Voice to try and impress us- only 
of course with a very wicked undertone.

As for the looks of voldy before he's reborn. have you ever seen an 
Early-born child? My daughter was one, and she looked tiny, with 
really long (compared with the body) Arms and legs and nearly *old* in 
the face (she was beautiful though ). If you take that kind of body 
and make it purplish - dark, take the old/new face and remove the nose 
make slit-nostrils instead and replace the big, lovely baby- eyes with 
bright-red ones: Voila !! Here's Baby -Voldy !!

Any other opinions?

Mecki