Voldemort babyfied?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 171679

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eric Oppen" <technomad at ...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Carol responds:
Interesting theory, but it doesn't fit well with the Prophecy ("either
must die at the hand of the other") and Harry has seen what LV was
like as a boy. He's even heard Mrs. Cole say that he never responded
to affection or attention even as a baby. He was strange from the
first. Harry would know that they'd be just repeating history--not to
mention that this baby would have one-seventh of a soul (JKR's math,
not mine) and would probably be just as snake-faced an horrible as the
Fetal!mort who required Nagini's "milk" for sustenance. And we saw how
Harry reacted to *that* "baby": "Let it have drowned. . . . let it
have gone wrong. . .  . It's gone wrong. . . . it's drowned . . . .
please, please, let it be dead. . . ." (GoF Am. ed. 643).

Carol, who believes that Love will destroy, not save, Voldemort, who,
as we know from OoP, can't endure it