Harry and Voldemort and killing each other

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 82343

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Woodward, Deirdre"
<dwoodward at t...> wrote:
> Hasn't Harry already killed Voldemort, in the sense that Voldemort
the immortal dark lord no longer exists?  Now that Voldy is human
again, he's no longer Voldemort, but plain old Tom Riddle, as
Dumbledore pointed out at the end of OoP by calling him "Tom." 
Certainly, he's a powerful wizard, but he's human for the first time
since before he started terrorizing the wizarding world.
>  
> Deirdre

bboy_mn:

If he's now plain old Tom Riddle, who was a tall, handsome boy with
dark hair, then why does he look like a snake; white skin, flat nose
with slits for nostrils, and red cat-like eyes?

Voldemort has returned to his self after Tom Riddle but before
Voldemort's encounter with Harry Potter. Since he still looks like a
snake, he still retains at least some of the transformations he went
through. I think he has been so transformed, that the physical essense
of Tom Riddle has been lost, so he can't ever go back to that again.

By his own words, he does have some degree of mortality, but the exact
degree is not clearly defined.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn