Voldie Baby

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No: HPFGUIDX 152996

In re-reading the Emerson/Melissa interview of 7/16/05, the 
following caught my attention.
"I feel I could justify every single piece of morbid imagery in 
those books.  The one that I wondered whether I was going to be able 
to get past the editors was the physical condition of Voldemort 
before he went into the cauldron, do you remember?  He was kind of 
fetal.  I felt an almost visceral distaste for what I had conjured 
up, but there's a reason it was in there and you will see that."

I asked myself, "Self, what is the reason that a fetal Voldemort is 
so important?
Self answered, "Remember the Time room in the Department of 
Mysteries where there is a vase-like object containing an egg that 
becomes a bird that becomes an egg again etc.  The same room where 
the Death Eater's head got caught in said vase, and he became a 
*baby* and back again?  

What is that Vase thingy?  Well, it has the power to make the 
subject of its powers physically younger and older.  But the changes 
seem to happen in real time.  When the Death Eater pulled out of the 
Vase, his head remained babylike, in the here and now.  

These two threads of thought came together into the idea that, if 
the Final Battle occurs in the DoM, Harry may vanquish Voldemort by 
turning him into a *baby*!  I see the following scenario.

All Horcruxes have been vanquished.  (For purposes of simplicity, 
I'm assuming that Harry or his scar are not Horcruxes).  Harry lures 
Voldie into the room with the vases, says, Wow, look at that bird, 
and when Voldie turns to look, pushes him in.  OK, probably 
something more elegant but that's why I'm not writing best selling 
books.  Harry levitates "baby" Tom out.  Baby Tom is adopted by the 
loving Weasley family and gets to make a new start as a mortal with 
the prospect of being loved this time.

Any other ideas about what JKR's reasons for a fetal Voldie were?


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