roachpatrol:

do you ever think about how voldemort was 72 when he died? like, this dude spent his whole life trying to figure out immortality. as a wizard he’d probably have made it to 200 if he just ate healthy, got regular exercise, had wizard doctor checkups, whatever. 

and like, the philosopher’s stone existed! no-drawbacks immortality was already a thing, they established this in the first book, nicholas flammel and his wife had been using it for centuries and by all accounts being pretty decent people and not fucked up psycho murder snakes so maybe tom riddle could have just asked very nicely to use it for a little bit, like, before he did a bunch of evil shit?? 

instead, no. he goes and decides the solution to dying is to turn into like nightmare snake hitler, start two civil wars, and croak at an age some muggles don’t even retire at. 

worst villain ever.