Voldemort - 2 bodies?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 175934

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Morgan" <MorganAnnAdams at ...> 
wrote:

> When Voldemort's soul is ripped from his body in Godric's Hollow, was 
> a body left there? He certainly doesn't have a body when Wormtail 
> finds him later - Wormtail had to help him create one. And he only 
> created his man-sized body at the end of Book 4.
 
> Then, he dies again at the end of Book 7. Did Voldemort somehow have 
> 2 physical bodies, or was his body blasted away somehow when he tried 
> to kill Harry the first time?


The way I understand it, it doesn't matter if LV's body was "blasted 
away" or remained intact as a result of the events in Godric's Hollow. 
Even if the body was still there, it was dead, and therefore, unusable. 
LV had to find a way to regenerate his body, which he managed to do at 
the end of GoF.

The same thing would have happened at the end of DH, if LV still had at 
least one H-x left. His dead body would have been lying in the Great 
Hall, but Vapormort would have flown away hoping to regenerate again. 
Fortunately, LV was out of H-xes, so this time he died for good. I 
don't know if this answers your question, because I'm not sure that I 
understood the question correctly, but I tried :-)!

BTW, the last book seems to imply that LV left behind his dead body in 
GH, because DD says in King's Cross chapter: "He (LV) left more than 
his body behind" (p.709 US). In this case it seems strange that so many 
wizards thought he might return. If the body was found, wasn't it 
logical for everybody to assume that LV was dead (I don't mean DD here, 
but the rest of the WW)?


zanooda