Scar Horcrux - again!

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 157098

 
> Brothergib:
> How many Horcruxes do we think LV has made when he appears at 
> Hogwarts to request a job. The diary. The ring. The locket. The cup.
> The evidence certainly suggests that these Horcruxes were probably 
> made by this point. And yet LV does not resemble a snake at all. 

Neri:
I think you may be over-interpreting the canon here. Here is the 
relevant paragraph from HBP, Ch. 20:

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Harry let out a hastily stifled gasp. Voldemort had entered the room. 
His features were not those Harry had seen emerge from the great 
stone cauldron almost two years ago: They were not as snake-like, the 
eyes were not yet scarlet, the face not yet masklike, and yet he was 
no longer handsome Tom Riddle. It was as though his features had been 
burned and blurred; they were waxy and oddly distorted, and the 
whites of the eyes now had a permanently bloody look, though the 
pupils were not yet the slits that Harry knew they would become.
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"His features were not as snake-like" is not the same as "his 
features were not snake-like at all". In fact "not as" suggests to me 
that they were slightly snake-like, only not *as much as* they were 
at the graveyard. And indeed shortly after the paragraph above we are 
also told:

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Harry could tell that Voldemort had not expected Dumbledore to know 
this name; he saw Voldemort's eyes flash red again and the slit-like 
nostrils flare.
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It seems to me that slit-like nostrils are snake-like features. I 
also agree with KJ upthread – there isn't much sense in Voldemort 
acquiring the look of his Horcrux. We don't see him becoming diary-
like or cup-like, anyway <g>. It seems both more logical and more 
canonical that Voldemort's features becoming snake-like was a gradual 
process that was already starting during the job interview.


Neri