Voldemort and Unicorn Blood

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 155508

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Elaine Webster 
<elainewebster1 at ...> wrote:
>
>     I have a question but I have never posted on here before but 
have been very interested in knowing some answers if there are any.  
In the first book of HP Voldermort is drinking the unicorn's blood.  
When the half horse/man guy (don't know his name sorry) came and 
told Harry that the forest was not safe and that he needs to leave 
because he was well known etc.  When Harry Potter found out that was 
Voldermort and the half man/horse dude was telling him that when he 
drinks from something that pure such as unicorn blood that he is 
somewhat protected or can half live....so my question is that if he 
could drink that pure unicorn blood but yet was able to have hexes 
because he killed other people then how was he able to continue to 
live? 
> 
>   Is is required for him to kill innocent people to live even 
though he drank the pure blood from the unicorn (from the first 
book?)  Could anyone help me out?  

Tonks:
Hi Elaine:

Welcome to the group.  The horse guy is a Centaur and I think you 
mean Horcruxes not hexes. Having sorted that out let me try to 
provide some input into the answers. I do not have the total answer, 
but I can point out some of the symbolism involved.

Unicorn's are, among other things, a symbol of Christ, and a symbol 
of purity.  

The Horcruxes bind LV's soul to the earth, but if he has any sort of 
a body he must drink the blood to keep it going.  Now he did not 
have a real body until the graveyard.  But he did have that weird 
baby body, and that is a mystery as to how that came into being.  I 
can't remember or maybe we are never told, how he went from a 
disembodied spirit to some strange entity that was not a real body.  
Does anyone remember?  

As to why LV must drink the blood of the Unicorn, I guess it is 
because the blood is very magical and will keep a person alive, but 
in a cursed way.  This is like taking the blood of Christ in the 
Eucharist. It was once thought that if you took communion and were 
not in a state of grace (the reason for confession and absolution 
beforehand) you would be drinking condemnation unto yourself.  

LV lived on Unicorn blood and later on the venom from Nagini.  This 
is a rather interesting question to ponder. As to why he must do 
so.  What is in JKR's mind? I am at a lost on this one.  Maybe there 
is something from Egyptian lore about snakes.  ?

Tonks_op
just rambling on...