Vanquishing Voldemort - The Ultimate Punishment

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 106696

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aggiepaddy" <aggie at r...> wrote:
> >Steve:
> > 
> > Here is the ultimate punishment for Voldemort.
> > 
> > To be immortal, stripped of his powers, and imprisoned.
> > 
> > Immortality sounds good, but forever is such a long time. For
> > Voldemort/Riddle it would be century after century of no where to
> > go, nothing to do, just endless wasted hours passing by for 
> > eternity.
> > 
> > Plus, living forever, doesn't mean being young forever, or being
> > in good health forever, or being of sound mind forever. Earthly
> > immortality is highly overrated.
  
 
> Aggie: 
> The only problem with this theory is that it gives LV the chance to 
> rebuild himself.  The chances of him then returning to power are 
> quite high considering everything he's been through to get where he 
> is now.  I know that he'll be imprisoned but I doubt that would stop 
> him!!
> 
> This would just be fitting to Hollywood, leave enough ambiguity so 
> there's always room for the sequel!!

Asain_lovr2:

You are missing the key point. 

The Ultimate Punishment for Voldemort -  To be immortal, STRIPPED OF
HIS POWERS, and imprisoned.

I assumed people would understand what I meant by 'stripped of his
powers', but in hindsight, I didn't make that part clear. There is are
speculative endings in which the final cataclysmic event that allows
Harry to defeat Voldemort, leaves Harry and/or Voldemort as muggles.
That is one or both of them have completely lost their magical powers.
Some even speculate that Harry will realize in advance, that the price
of defeating Voldemort is the loss of his own magical power.

So, my premise is not that the court magically removes his powers
before sending Voldemort to prison, but that the loss of his power are
a complete and irreversable part of attempting to kill Harry again. In
this case, he is not going to rebuild himself while in prison.

This also assumes that despite his reference to 'embracing mortatlity
again' that Voldemort now has the same body that he had before he
tried to kill Harry the first time. Which means while he is not
prefectly corporally immortal, by most standards, he can not be killed. 

Since, Voldemort has his snake-like body, and not Tom Riddles handsome
body, Voldemort did not revert back to his original mortal body, but
back to his pre-Harry encounter semi-immortal body.

If all my suppositions fall into place, then Voldemort is screwed, he
is trapped in an ever deteriorating physical body, but at the same
time can never suffer true death, and because I say so, he can't cause
his physical body to die (like jump of the roof or hang himself) and
continue on as Vapormort. His magical powers have been completely
lost, so even as Vapormort, he could never recover.

Think of the irony, Voldemort wants immortality, he sees it as his
greatest achievement, and in the end, as I always knew it would, that
immortality becomes his greatest curse. ...sweet delicious heavenly
irony ...I love it.

He's screwed, you heard it here first.

Steve/asian_lovr2