[HPforGrownups] Re: Did Voldemort make use of a Horcrux already?

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 165557

> Reading your post, I remembered this bit of the post-HBP
> Leaky/Mugglenet interview:
>
> "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 was a
> reason it was in there, and you will see that."
>
> I wonder if the reason LV was able to get that fetal body was the
> result of some other of his "experiments."  Even though, it seems
> like there is already too much to deal with in DH without adding that
> in.
>
> Annemehr,
> hoping that the people are right who surmise that the resolution of
> the Hx problem will take rather less page time than might be expected


Shelley adds: It's my thought that because RJ uses the words "fetal", that 
he had been "born again" of sorts. It's a mystery whether he died instantly 
and one of the Horcruxes was activated to save his soul/life, or whether he 
was "just alive enough" to have enough strength to call up a temporary spell 
to keep him alive for just a little while longer to be able to use the 
Horcrux.  In canon, we see in the Department of Mysteries one of the Death 
Eater's heads sink into a liquid, and his head goes from an adult to a baby, 
and then back again. I think Voldie used something like that regenerate 
himself so that he wasn't "vapormort" as we had all supposed, but started 
over as a blob of goo that grew and took shape of a human, gradually getting 
to look more like a person, so that he indeed would have many "lives" to 
live through. We see Wormtail needing to "milk Nagini"- milk is used for a 
baby, is it not? We knew that his shape then was not big enough to be seen 
from around the chair- he was little then, but still pretty disgusting 
looking, as Wormtail cringed when he had to look at Voldemort.

It wouldn't be too much to add to DH, if Harry or someone else does manage 
to "kill" Voldemort again, but that this time we "witness it"- this process 
of regeneration take place before our eyes. That would reemphasize that 
Harry needs to off Voldemort for good, so that he doesn't keep coming back 
like a cat with nine lives.

Shelley