Re: Lord Voldemort's Six Horcruxes? Are Dumbledore’s Opinions Wrong? (LVs SHADOW

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> Brothergib wrote:
> > > Interesting, but Voldemort is not snakelike when he reemerges 
> from 
> > > his long 'exile' when he conversed with 'the very worst of our 
> kind'. 

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> Carol:
> *(snip)*
> > I think he must have been snakelike (as the result of Nagini as
> > Horcrux) before Godric's Hollow for two reasons. First, the DEs 
in 
> the
> > graveyard scene don't react at all to his appearance. This is
> > Voldemort restored, Voldemort as they knew him. And second, the 
face
> > that appears out of Quirrell's head in SS/PS is snakelike. At 
that
> > point, Quirrell is drinking unicorn blood to sustain his master, 
but
> > snake venom only comes into the picture when its used to create 
his
> > fetal body and provide "milk" for baby!mort.
> 
> Ceridwen:
> I think that, as LV split his soul and removed the pieces, he 
became 
> a bit less human each time.  He was born with one quality of 
snakes: 
> Parseltongue.  So as he becomes less human, he becomes more 
> snakelike.  I think that, if he became an Animagus, he would 
become a 
> snake; and his Patronus is probably a snake (or a basilisk or 
other 
> serpentine creature), IMO.  Snakelike properties might even be a 
> Slytherin family trait.
> 
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I agree with Ceridwen: it's not the horcrux that makes him 
snakelike, but his inborn snakelike qualities. I would also suggest 
that having possessed the bodies of *snakes* for years, not having 
his own, must have left some marks on him.

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