Voldemort's diet - My theory

[M.Clifford]

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"crownless_aragorn" wrote:
> 'What does Voldemort's diet consist of?'  This is what we will try 
> to find out here. 
>  
> I can't imagine Voldemort eating `Mashed Potatoes'. We have seen 
> him talking potions from Wormtail to stay alive before his re-birth 
> ceremony. It is more likely that his diet consist of potions only. 
> It is also likely that all those potions are invented by him only. 
> Voldemort had taken certain steps because of which he didn't die 
> when the spell rebounded. The potions in his daily diet are one of 
> these steps. ....edited...... He didn't manage to find a 
> formula for `Elixir of life'. It seems that he has developed his 
> own formula for fighting death. It seems that Dumbledore agrees with 
> me too.
> 

Valky:
I definitely think that this suggestion has promise. There is a lot of
canon that gives creedence such as Voldemort speaking to the DE's in
GOF about not knowing which *experiment* had lead to him surviving the
AK and also Severus Snape's first monologue in which he tells of
potions that keep one, an inch from death, alive and the amazing
wonder of potions as a whole. I have always agreed that both pieces of
canon were a subtle clue to something important but I haven't yet seen
a postulation thus supported by both. This one is.

So lets suppose that Voldemort spent his ten years in hiding imbibing
  concotions made similarly to mimic the elixir of life, perhaps he
himself even tried to make the Philosophers stone, but not having the
 grace to carry out the sacred task, and being in such a hurry to
conquer the WW, just transferred half ready stones into a modified
draught he concocted from 'some-other' concept and tried to bypass the
whole process to get the desired effect. It could work in theory. 
The words potion and experiment pair up nicely, yes no? 

I imagine that there is at least one more piece of the puzzle that
hasn't been fitted yet. I am sure that the Chamber of Secrets and
Salazar Slytherin are something to do with it but what exactly, I am
not sure. 

As for potions being Voldemorts main diet, I have to say, I think yes,
foul tasting viscous substances and small animals are exactly what I
expect him to be subsisiting on. urrrgh..

Good post uc-aragorn.. ! 

from Valky