From a link from the question What Does the Rudimentary Body Potion Do to You to the HP Wikia, I started mulling over something I read about Voldemort and the "regeneration" potion (not a canon potion, but I'll use it for lack of a better way of describing it. . .) and would really like to know:
How did Voldemort drink the regeneration potion to turn his body into the grotesque childlike form we see in Goblet of Fire while he was still in a "mangled spectral state"?
Spectres (i.e. spirits or ghosts) are non-corporeal; they obviously can't consume food or drink liquids. So, how did Voldemort overcome this difficulty and manage to drink the regeneration potion?
Answer
Here's what Voldemort himself says about his intermediate body:
"Wormtail was able to follow the instructions I gave him, which would return me to a rudimentary, weak body of my own, a body I would be able to inhabit while awaiting the essential ingredients for true rebirth... a spell or two of my own invention... a little help from my dear Nagini," Voldemort's red eyes fell upon the continually circling snake, "a potion concocted from unicorn blood, and the snake venom Nagini provided... I was soon returned to an almost human form, and strong enough to travel."
I interpret that to mean that Wormtail performed "a spell or two" to restore Voldemort to some physical form able to imbibe potions, and either the potion was just to make him stronger or to bring him up from the body Wormtail's spell created to the baby-like body he spent that year in.
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