[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort the Vampire - Quirrell drank the unicorn blood, not Voldemort.

[Rita]

No: HPFGUIDX 46311

 
 
 Julie:
 
SS/PS p 293:
 
Voldemort speaking
*snip*
"See what I have become?" the face said. "Mere shadow and 
vapor . . . I have form only when I can share another's body . . . 
but there have always beeen those willing to let me into their hearts 
and minds. . . . Unicoren blood has strengthened me, these past 
weeks . . . you saw faithful Quirrell drinking it for me in the 
forest . . ."
*snip*
 
So it's Quirrell who drinks the blood here. 


Me:
All very true but a problem arises. How comes that the unicorn blood that
Quirrel drinks is only beneficial to Vapour!Voldemort? Shouldn't Quirrel too
gain that sort of cursed immortality Firenze speaks about ( well, actually
he says 'cursed life' which maybe has different entailments)? he dies
instead vhem LV leaves him.


Julie:
But nevertheless, it is 
blood drinking. And I mentioned just a few messages ago that I do 
believe that somehow Voldemort is a vampire and this is how he's not 
dead from all this. 

Me:
 I have a very intresting analisys of the HP series by Gail Grynbaum, a
jungean psychologist with an interest for Alchemy, where LV is compared to
the Vampire archetipe. If anyone in interested in reading it  I can either
quote the passage in question ( I seem to recall it's not too long) or post
the entire essay to the File section. just let me know what anyone would
prefer me to do.
R.