Voldemort and Death

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No: HPFGUIDX 103024

>>> Phil: Now Phil quickly looks up in GOF, CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
> THE DEATH EATERS
> LV says...
> But I was willing to
> embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality. I set my
> sights lower ... I would settle for my old body back again, and
> my old strength. <<<

Bren replied to Phil's comment:

What does he mean by his "old body"?
(1) The old Tom Riddle body? or...
(2) The old Voldemort before his downfall at GH?

I'm leaning towards (1) myself, although I can't see why LV would
willingly go back to his half-Muggle, mortal body that hadn't been
contaminated by many dangerous Dark transformations.

But if LV meant (2), how is his new body so different from the old VM
one that he will want to "settle for" it?

Snow replies:
It wouldn't be Voldemort's old body because He said in GOF 
pg.653 "Aaah
pain beyond pain, my friends; nothing could have 
prepared me for it. I was ripped from my body, I was less than 
spirit, less than the meanest ghost
but still, I was alive."

So Voldemort's old body died at Godric's Hollow. Voldemort can't 
actually have that particular body back in which his Slytherin 
mother's blood resided in, so he created a new body that wasn't yet 
protected from immortality like his old one. But why would Voldemort 
want this new body that is made up of his muggle father's bones, 
Harry's mother's sacrificial-blood and a coward's sacrificial skin or 
didn't he think this could cause him a problem? (possibly the gleam 
in DD's eye) This new body may appear to look like his old one 
because he used the bone of his father but its nothing more than a 
container for his Vapormort spirit. Maybe his old body was what saved 
him at GH because the body itself had immortal properties but the new 
body that he settled for may be a whole lot less than just having the 
properties of immortality because of its ingredients. 

This thought is unrelated sorry but all this talk about Voldemort's 
body made me think of something Sirius said in POA pg. 365 "I set out 
for your parents' house straight away. And when I saw their house, 
destroyed, and their bodies
"
 
If there were two bodies that Sirius assumed to be the Potters and 
Voldemort lost his body with the rebounded AK, shouldn't there have 
been three bodies? Lily and James are supposedly both killed at GH 
and Voldemort was ripped from his body there so which body is 
missing?