05-07-2007, 03:00 AM
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 SS AddictClabbert
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSissa  I think it has more to do with the symbol of evil in the wizarding world. In the muggle world, it's all about the devil, red, horns, the whole shebang. What's evil in the wizarding world is snakes and what better way to make the most evil wizard of all time look the part than manking him more snakelike. I think it's more about symbolism than the actual transformation. He stripped his soul, whatever was left of it, of anything that could have been good that kept him remotely human. When he started experimenting with inhuman things, his humanity was gone and thus he could no longer retain a truely human form. When you start messing with evil, and to the extent that Voldemort did, it starts to change you, first your soul, the nyour body. Voldemort was the epitome of evil. I don't think his character would have been as poignant had he looked like everyone else. | Yes, you explained it much better, of course you used more than two sentences, unlike me. |
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