What's in the locked room?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89357

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Anne"
<silverthorne.dragon at v...> wrote:
> > Berit replies:
> > 
>  DD says Voldemort fears the mysterious force in the MoM-room. But 
> how can Voldemort fear what he seems to have used the better part of 
> his life to get: immortality/everlasting life? Have you thought of an 
> explanation to this seeming discrepancy?
> 
> 
> {Anne Responds}
> 
> Hmmmmm...I can see (I think) What Kneasy is getting out...and also 
> what Berit is getting....just to play Devil's Advocate here, though...
> 
> What is Voldemort really after? 'Life'? Sort of...but then, with 
> normal, everyday 'life'...there is always Death to follow. Even 
> Phoenix's 'die'--rebrithing from the ashes young and anew.
> 
> Voldemort is looking for a way out of that natural cycle--not so much 
> Life, as the cessation, in his case, of the eventuality of 
> Death....which in turn, if you ask a lot of philospher types, argue 
> that Life itself looses its meaning...and is essentally no longer 
> life, because it is lacking it's counter balance in 
> death...bascially, you stagnate after awhile (You see this theme in a 
> lot of 'immortal' stories--everything becomes the same after 
> awhile....)and 'die' internally, even though your body still lives on 
> (Essentiually, you loose your soul, your emotions, your humanity).
> 
> So what he's really seeking is to escape the natural order of things--
> Life being one of them (Because after Life comes Death)...so I can 
> see where Life (in it's original form) would be something everyone 
> has, something Voldy would fear (in it's natural form), and something 
> that could very well tip the balance. After all, if Voldemort is 
> gifted with the Life in that room (which would be the natural, 
> balanced version)...what would happen to him? After all, he 
> has 'lived' far beyond his natural time by now...so...he might 
> gain "real' Life if he went into that room, only to loose it 
> instantly--because Death has been waiting for him for so long, in 
> order to rebalance the scales...
>

Carol:
I was with you up to this point, but Voldemort is only about 65 in
OoP, early middle age by wizard standards. Maybe he's used up some of
his natural life through his transformations, not to mention drinking
unicorn blood, though maybe that affected only Quirrell. But as far as
his life in wizard years is concerned, he's nowhere near the end of
it. he's close in age to Hagrid, who appears to be in the prime of
life, younger than McGonagall, and far younger (by some 85 years) than
sprightly old Dumbledore.

So unless he has somehow used up his span of years, what would
probably happen if he encountered Life as you define it is that he
would become Tom Riddle, dark wizard, age 65.

Carol