Harry Potter’s Grossest Theory Explains Voldemort’s Body in Goblet of Fire

Let’s backtrack for one moment and ask one question: how exactly does some sort of infant creature turn into one of the most dangerous wizards who’s ever lived? When Harry arrives at the graveyard after ostensibly winning the Triwizard Tournament — he and his fellow Hogwarts champion Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson) agree to tie, grabbing the Triwizard Cup together before they’re suddenly and unexpectedly transported to Little Hangleton — Peter Pettigrew cruelly and casually kills Cedric before immobilizing Harry against a grave marker. From there, he places the “baby Voldemort” (or whatever it is) into a cauldron and adds a bone purloined from the grave of Voldemort’s father Tom Riddle, Pettigrew’s own flesh (he severs his own arm, hand and all, for his master), and Harry’s blood. In the chapter, Harry watches, horrified, as Pettigrew recites the following incantation in parts: “Bone of the father, unknowingly given, you will renew your son! Flesh of the servant, willingly sacrificed, you will revive your master. Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken, you will resurrect your foe.”
Series author Joanne K. Rowling hasn’t spoken extensively on this topic — and certainly hasn’t confirmed whether or not the infant in question is Voldemort, a stolen child, or a child who belonged to Bertha Jorkins — but she did, at one point, discuss it with Pottercast while talking about some of the most disgusting things found in her franchise. After saying that there are two things two awful to discuss, the other being the creation of Horcruxes, Rowling revealed, “One of them is how Pettigrew brought Voldemort back into a rudimentary body […] ‘Cause I told my editor what I thought happened there and she looked as though she was gonna vomit.”