Daniel Radcliffe tackles the practicalities of Voldemort living on the back of a guy’s head
Given that Harry Potter is a story about a boy wizard who attends a magical school, it’s only natural fans should have to suspend disbelief a bit in order to enjoy the story. Such is the case with any fantasy tale, though there are a few moments from Harry Potter that have left even the most dedicated of true believers scratching their heads.
Take the ending of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. We learn that Professor Quirrell is the book’s true villain, and that Voldemort has been residing on the back of the man’s head all this time. Sure, it makes for an exciting and unexpected plot twist. But when one really thinks about it, there are a lot of questions surrounding how that would work. For one thing, how did the two of them sleep all those months?
This is a question that’s been posed comically during StarKid’s A Very Potter Musical, and it’s one that many other fans have asked over the years. After all, a living arrangement that involves anyone’s face being on the back of your head can’t be comfortable. Daniel Radcliffe, who played the Boy Who Lived himself in the Warner Bros. movies, weighed in on the topic…although his response might have raised more questions than it answered.
“I would say the only practical thing to do there would be to sleep on your side,” Radcliffe told Huffpost, “unless Voldemort doesn’t need air, which I’m not sure.”
Given all those Horcruxes, it’s very possible Voldemort didn’t need air — especially considering his barely alive state in the first book. If Voldemort couldn’t actually die with all of his Horcruxes still intact, it stands to reason smothering him wouldn’t do the trick either — though we can’t imagine he’d be happy with the situation.
“I’m guessing back-of-the-head Voldemort could survive off of front-of-the-head Ian Hart’s air supply,” Radcliffe added.
The science on that one is iffy, though, but we’re talking about magic, so pretty much anything goes. We don’t really have any IRL examples of two-faced humans to compare it to, thank goodness.
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