Immortal vapour? MAGIC DISHWASHER

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 40026

> Eloise wrote: 
> That's a good point. I've always believed the Voldemort is immortal 
> whilst disembodied theory (mostly because Hagrid and Sirius do). So 
> why was Voldemort in hiding? 

Since this comes into the MAGIC DISHWASHER theme, I'll give you an 
answer that fits it. It's altoghether possible that while in vapur 
form, although he couldn't be destroyed, he was too debilitated to 
prevent one of his DEs from using some dark magic to reduce him to a 
mere second-in-command, or even worse. Since V wants to be the boss, he 
had to wait until an easily manipulable DE came to help him.

> However I think there is an argument against disembodied Voldemort 
> being immortal. if he is, why does he need the unicorn blood? Firenze 
> explains its purpose as being to *keep you alive*, suggesting that he 
> *was* in danger of dying. Otherwise, why accept the cursed, half life 
> that unicorn blood condemns him to?
> (and why doesn't that curse continue?)

The Unicorn blood was to keep him in Quirrlell's head. As in the case 
of Fugly baby!Voldemort, he needs some constant magical mean of 
support, or he would return to his normal vapour form. Then again, we 
know that the Unicorn blood gave him back powers, and Voldemort will do 
anything to gain power, especially when he is debilitated.

About the Unicorn's curse: I suppose it died with Quirrell. Strictly 
speaking, Vapuor!Voldemort is not alive, so he cannot be affected by a 
life-curse.
 
> In fact, I am curious to know why Voldemort so wants to regain a 
> body. He had already undergone great transformations from the days 
> when he was Tom Riddle. One *might* expect that the next stage was 
> some powerful, but non-corporeal form. The implication seems to be 
> that to be effective, he requires a body, which I find odd, given 
> that we know that wizards can use wandless magic.
>
> Eloise
> Who's finally caught up. Nearly.

Ah! That's were the cunning of Dumbledore and MAGIC DISHWASHER comes 
in: after the PS was destroyed, Voldemort run oput of easy options. It 
seems that the stone wuld have goven his Vapour form power, but he 
tells us in GoF he was "ready to assume again mortal life before 
searching for inmortal life". Dumbledore or, if you don't like 
dishwasher theory, some other circunstance had convinced him that to 
gain inmortality he had to go back to square one and start over. 
Thankfully, he doesn't realize this will give the oppening Harry will 
need to destroy him.

Hope that helps

Grey Wolf