harry potter fans?

Question

hey everyone! well i am a huge fan of everything harry potter: the books, movies, you name it,i also have a huge collection of harry potter merchandise,but yet i have always wondered this: why does voldemort look terrribly disformed or whatever you want to say is wrong with him? you know.from when he was normal looking with HAIR,to bald with slits for nostrils and etc?i just don't get that? what caused him to become like that? thanks! i've always wondered that.If i'm waisting your time,sorry!=) P.S. RUDE PEOPLE,KEEP YOUR RUDE COMMENTS TO YOURSELF!

Answer 1

it probably happened when the killing curse, ment for Harry, backfired. remember, he was reduced to almost nothing! other than that, JK just wanted to write him that way, make him seem scarier, weirder. to show how much the killing curse actually affected him. well, hope this helped! =)

Answer 2

Yeah reason I mean I even have meet some relatively advantageous human beings by employing speaking approximately Harry Potter and stuff even at school I talked to human beings i'm going to no longer have oftentimes talked to and have become acquaintances because of the fact we the two like HP.

Answer 3

Well, the way I understood it, it was all the Dark Magic and especially the creation of his Horcruxes that slowly disfigured him. He tore his soul in so many peaces it would be only natural that his appearance would have to suffer. Why snake-like appearance? Because of his fascination towards them, because of how close he is to them, how much he uses them -- sort of like Greyback started having a wolf appearance even when there wasn't full moon.

Answer 4

Granted, JK Rowling has never addressed that (and a friend of mine who never read the books asked me the same thing), but I always assumed it had something to do with his fascination with snakes. Also, when coming back, doesn't he use Nagini in some way? That may have had something to do with his mutation. Of course, in Sorcerer's Stone, when he is nothing more than a face on the back of Quirrel's head, he is described without a nose then, as well. I just assumed it was the Slytherin blood in him, as well as his love of dark arts, that mutated his face and diformed him.

Answer 5

Since his greatest fear was always of death and - unlike people on the good side of things - he was willing to do anything to live forever as the strongest wizard ever, he probably used a lot of nasty dark spells on himself to make himself stong enough to go questing for the stuff that made him funtionally immortal - if you've read the seventh book, you know what things he made into Horcruxes, and I can't imagine it was easy to go wandering about and find all that, not to mention how much of a target he made himself for dark wizards when he went about gathering forces. He had to have done something to protect himself till he could make enough Horcruxes.

Answer 6

Well, if he looked normal, he wouldn't be so scary and menacing, now would he?
It's probably because of all the dark magic, and he wanted to be true to the house of Slytherin because he was the heir of Slytherin, that his features became more like a snake.

Answer 7

Well, if you're as big a fan of HP as you claim, then you would know WHY Volde is disfigured.

If not, then re-read the books and/or watch the movies again.

Answer 8

There is not enough of his soul left to make him a normal human being so he it is as if he is only part man.

Answer 9

Iv always wondered that myself i guess thats the outcome from performing dark magic with bad results.It does make him seem more scarier like that though.

Answer 10

My interpretation of it is that he isn't using his old body anymore-the person he was before he died. The way he is now in the stories is just one part of his soul-so he's not a complete person anymore.