Voldemort babyfied?

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 171677

Several people have raised the question of what happens in Book 7 if 
Voldemort gets hit with whatever hit that DE in OotP, and gets reverted back 
to a baby.  Most of you seem to think that Harry will kill him anyway.

If you refer back to that scene, I think you'll find a clue about what would 
happen if Voldemort were babyfied.  Like so:

--Harry raised his wand.  At last, he had Voldemort where he wanted him! 
The Dark Lord had blundered into the Time Room at the Ministry and had 
fallen into a time-warper; he was now nothing but a helpless baby, wriggling 
on his back in a pile of robes and crying.  Harry poised himself to kill, to 
free himself and the Wizard World from a menace that had brooded over them 
for decades...

--and found himself staring down the business end of a wand.  Behind that 
wand was Hermione Granger; her eyes were like two chips of obsidian.

"Put down that wand, Harry Potter!" she hissed.  "Put it down, _now!_"

"But---he's Voldemort!"

"_You can't kill a baby!"_

And I can see Hermione's point.  Granted, genetically the Gaunts weren't a 
great risk, but a lot of Merope's problems were likely to be due to her 
upbringing, and AFAWK the Riddles were all right on that score.   Also, 
despite the best efforts of the orphanage, we have Herself's word that he 
was never loved, and that might well have contributed to his, er, _problems_ 
dealing with people.  Being raised by a loving adoptive family might make a 
big difference, and even if problems arise, this time people'd be forwarned.