Mortality question

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 153456

Hi, everybody! I joined this group a few weeks ago and I already found
answers to a lot of questions that were torturing me for years. Thanks!
But there are still things that keep bugging me. I honestly tried to
find answers in old messages, but there are too many of them.

Maybe someone of the veterans remembers and can point me to some old
thread, or give me a push in the right direction, because I'm pretty
sure that every word of every book was discussed.

One of my questions concerns GoF. In the cemetery scene, in his speech
to DEs, LV describes his return to a human body and says:"But I was
willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality. I
set my sights lower...I would settle for my old body back again, and
my old strength." (GoF,p.656 US ed. or p.569 UK ed.)

This is very frustrating, but I can't figure out why he is talking
about mortality here. He still has his Horcruxes, hasn't he? Until
they are destroyed, he is immortal, right? Please, please give me some
general idea of where to find the answer(off-list, if you think it's
too boring for others to read). Thanks in advance!

zanooda