![]() ![]() Voldemort, still infantile, was lowered into a potion made from these macabre ingredients. "Flesh of the servant, willingly sacrificed" arrived from Wormtail himself, who cut off his own hand for the sake of his master. "Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken" came from Harry's imprisoned arm. "Bone of the father, unknowingly given" was taken from his father's moldering grave. He was shrunken and weak, to be sure - but not for long. Its arms and legs were thin and feeble, and its face - no child alive ever had a face like that - was flat and snake-like, with gleaming red eyes." It was in this feeble form that Voldemort lived for roughly a year, planning his infiltration of the Triwizard tournament, hiding Alastor Moody away in his own enchanted trunk, and learning of his followers' exploits at the Quidditch World Cup. It was hairless and scaly-looking, a dark, raw, reddish black. ![]() ![]() had the shape of a crouched human child, except that Harry had never seen anything less like a child. Harry, upon seeing it at the climax of Goblet of Fire, describes it as "ugly, slimy, and blind. Using snake venom and unicorn blood, the two concocted a rudimentary body for Voldemort to inhabit. Though Pettigrew was a cringing coward, he proved critically important to Voldemort's plans. Peter Pettigrew, the man who betrayed Harry's family for the sake of the Dark Lord's favor, found his master once more in the forests of Albania. his face was as pale as the snow glistening on his shoulders." The implication that Voldemort's evil was strong enough to erode his good looks is startling enough - worse still is the fact that Voldemort had grown so powerful that he no longer felt the need to maintain his handsomeness as a tool. pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed." This had begun to wear away at his looks: Harry noted from his viewpoint in the Pensieve that Riddle looked "as though his features had been burned and blurred they were waxy and oddly distorted, and the whites of his eyes now had a permanently bloody look. As he argued, by that time he had "experimented. Ten years after Hepzibah Smith's murder, Riddle (who was still using his birth name in polite society) emerged to ask Dumbledore, already Headmaster of Hogwarts, for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Most suggestive of the extremes to which he went is the manner in which his appearance changed. ![]()
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