Exhuming Tom Riddle the Elder (was: hehehe Fidelius Charm)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 47752

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Strix" <kethlenda at y...> wrote:
> In defense of the idea that the ritual was flawed (I think it 
worked, 
> but I'm playing devil's advocate):  I believe Voldemort made a 
> reference to how this ritual was supposed to give him his "old 
> body" back.  And the ghastly snakelike man who emerged 
> looked nothing like V's human form as Tom Riddle.  Personally, I 
> think that was a result of the experiments with immortality that 
he 
> performed during his earlier lifetime--remember how 
> Dumbledore said he was basically unrecognizable by the time 
> he emerged as Lord Voldemort?   But it's possible to theorize 
> that his strange appearance is a result of something having 
> gone wrong in the ritual.  *shrug*
>  

I think that if Voldemort's appearance was messed up as the result 
of a flawed ritual, there would've been some reaction from the 
people involved.  Voldemort himself would've gone, "Hey! That's not 
what I'm supposed to look like!  Wormtail, you idiot, you got it 
wrong! Crucio!"  The various DEs who arrived at the scene would've 
been startled to find themselves facing a think snaky guy instead of 
the handsome dark-haired man they remembered.  The fact that 
everyone except Harry seems rather blase about Voldemort's 
appearance suggests that he looks the way he's supposed to look.

Marina
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