On Horcrux-making and losing one’s looks

[sunnyskywalker]

We know that Tom’s appearance deteriorated during the same time period he was making Horcruxes. Dumbledore and Harry seem to believe this is cause and effect: you split your soul, and your face gets melty-looking.

Are they correct, though?

Comments

[tygershark]

The other measures Voldy took to gain immortality taking a toll on his looks seem to make the most sense to me. Maybe it was a failed attempt to turn into an animagus. Or maybe he drank some bad polyjuice, like Hermoine's half-cat transformation. He had to have already wrecked his looks before 1981 because his followers recognized him in the graveyard.

[sunnyskywalker]

If he was deliberately trying a partial transformation to gain only certain features of the target species as an experiment... you know, that might work!

But it would be hilarious if his experiment only partly succeeded and ruined his looks in the process. I mean, it makes for a great disguise, but he might have had other plans for that which didn't make him look the way he turned out.

[oryx_leucoryx]

In the wizarding world he became the poster child for 'be careful or you'd get stuck that way'.

[sunnyskywalker]

*dies laughing* Please let someone make an actual poster of this.