Ahha!! I've got it... Harry's eyes/Time-turner/ LV mortality

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 121918


--- Tonks wrote:
...snip...
> 
> And why is time-turning so important?  Because it is
> what LV did to become immortal.  He meddled with time. 
> *Terrible things happen to wizards that meddle with
> time*.  And perhaps one of those terrible things is 
> that they get stuck in time and can not escape. <snip> 
> And here is the real question (another drum roll) is 
> he really trying to live forever, or is he trying to 
> DIE.  Maybe Tom Riddle messed around with a time-turner,
> thought it was cool, but after a few years as LV, wanted
> out and now can not get out.

 
Juli now:
WOW, Love this theory Tonks, completely amazing. But,
as always, there's a but, first here's this little
piece of canon:

I, who have gone further than anybody along the path
that leads to immortality. You know my goal - to
conquer death. And now, I was tested, and it appeared
that one or more of my experiments had worked ... for
I had not been killed, though the curse should have
done it. [...]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.
(LV's speach to his DE, GoF Ch33)

As I read this, LV wants his inmortality, not his
capability to die. 

Just my opinion

Juli