That ugly baby thing.

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 173625

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at ...> wrote:
> Anyway, I'm glad you pointed out the fetal soul was connected to the 
> fetal Voldemort who rebirthed in the graveyard (upthread); JKR had 
> promised that would play later and I was looking for it then 
> completely passed by the reference, duh.  

It reminded me of Dante's Inferno, where "the punishment fits the 
crime" - e.g., the souls of suicides are trapped within gnarled, 
stunted trees, because the suicides who sinfully renounced their 
physical bodies while still alive are not permitted to retain their 
bodies in the afterlife. Voldemort violated the natural order by 
creating the Horcruxes and later using them to be physically reborn as 
a hideous homunculus.  This then is the form his soul will be compelled 
to retain.

   - CMC