Immortal Voldemort

[Grace]

No: HPFGUIDX 49682

I was thinking about that quest for immorality that LV was after.

"You know my goal - to conquer death.  And now, I was tested, and it appeared that one or more of my experiments had worked ... for I had not been killed."  (GoF)

It is likely that LV had obtained immortality when his death curse rebounded off little Harry.  Fourteen years of living as a vapor or possessing other bodies seems to imply that his vaporous self did not dissapate into the atmosphere.  He could have gone on like that forever then.  But it appears that immortality isn't all its cracked up to be.  

I think LV got what he wanted and didn't recognize it. He thinks its back to the drawing board.  He also thinks:
 "I set my sights lower ... I would settle for my old body back again, and my old strength."

However, he doesn't have his old body back and he may not have his old strength either because those three powerful ingredients needed to get his body back were never his in the first place.

"I admit I had not foreseen ..."  says he.   This seems to be a reocurring problem that LV has, and I think we are going to see this problem surface again.  If LV continues to seek to conquer death, then he will be stopped by some of the same or similar short sightedness that has plagued him all along.  But if he gives  up the idea of immortality and goes for the power- is-everything, he becomes more dangerous.

"Ah, what a story it is, Lucius," said Voldemort.

I agree.

Grace


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