Why Did Voldemort Live?

[mightymaus75]

No: HPFGUIDX 129048

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sophierom" <sophierom at y...> 
wrote:
> Actually, Rowling didn't say that we should be asking "Why did
> Voldemort live?" Instead, she said that no one's ever asked her this
> question: "Why didn't Voldemort die?" (Edinburgh Book Festival
> transcript). This may seem like a nitpick on my part, but I think
> it's significant that in her discussion of this topic, she keeps
> talking about why Voldemort didn't die instead of talking about why
> Voldemort lived. (See the transcript for her full disucssion;
> here's a link:
> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/news_view.cfm?id=80)
> 

I think you have made an important point there. In my opinion the 
reason Voldemort did not die is that he is not truly alive. Voldemort 
cannot feel love, Voldemort cannot feel the pain that goes with love, 
Voldemort has lost everything that made him alive as a result of the 
steps he took long ago to guard himself against death. This then is 
why Dumbledore tells Harry at the end of PS/SS: "not being truly 
alive, he cannot be killed." 

Dumbledore could have been referring to Voldemort's vapor state. But 
then Voldemort's vapor state was a result of it being impossible to 
kill Voldemort, not the cause. Dumbledore could have been referring 
to Voldemort's state of cursed half-life caused by drinking Unicorn 
blood. Unicorn blood however does not seem to keep you permanently 
from dying. It certainly didn't prevent Quirrell from dying. So 
perhaps Dumbledore was referring to the steps Voldemort had taken 
long ago to guard himself against death. 

This would mean Voldemort already was not truly alive the night he 
showed up in Godric's Hollow and was hit by the rebounded AK-curse. 
Because he was not truly alive, the AK-curse could not kill him.    

-Maus


For more on Voldemort not being truly alive see the KITTENS & 
RAINBOWS theory website: 
http://home.hccnet.nl/p.s.dekker/HPtheory.html