Snape, Horcruxes and Priori Incantatem

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 133424

> Laura C now:
> What if Voldemort did not create the last Horcrux until after his 
> resurrection?  It seems to me that this is not unlikely - while in 
> his babymort state it may have been too difficult to create another 
> Horcrux, however once he had fully returned to his corporeal state 
> this would be easier. 
> 
Saraquel now:
Great original post for this thread and interesting comments 
afterwards. Creating Horcruxes interests me as well.  I had assumed 
that LV must have created the Nagini Horcrux after his return to his 
body. But there does seem to be a puzzle, because of what his body 
actually looked like.  Judging from the progression of Riddles/LVs 
physical appearance in the book, each Horcrux he made changed his 
physical appearance slightly.  

In the Horcruxes chapter (all my quotes come from the UK editions) 
p466, after Riddle has killed his father and made the ring Horcrux, 
Harry notes that his features were made "somehow less human". 

In Lord Voldemort's Request p409 when LV is at Hepzibah's, and after 
he has made the Diary Horcrux, Harry notes "There was no mistaking it 
this time: Voldemort's eyes flashed scarlet at her words." 

By the time we see him again at the Hogwarts interview, p413 he has 
presumably made the next two Horcruxes (Locket and cup)and was looking 
for the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw, his face looks like this: "His features 
were not those Harry had seen emerge from the great stone cauldron 
almost two years before; they were not as snakelike, the eyes were not 
yet scarlet, the face not yet masklike, and yet he was no longer the 
handsome Tom Riddle. It was as though his features had been burned and 
blurred .." 

However, the description of him in OotP p 716, matches the description 
in GOF which matches the face that had been haunting Harry for the 
past 3 years (GoF p 558).  So either, he's gone beyong the point when 
his physical appearance changes, or he made the Horcrux before PS.  
Hmmm.

Saraquel