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The fact that he's wearing it at all stuns me. It needs to be maintained by a coven of the greatest wizards around.
Imagine: Harry dies (heart attack, stroke, stabbed by Goyle, whatever) Handless amnesiac Voldemort appears, dies of human transfiguration sickness after a few deeply confused minutes Horcrux network activates.
Best case, this amnesiac being can't figure out how to possess anyone. Medium case, somebody gets possessed by the clueless shade.
Worst case: network was built to supplement current memories with dump of previous ones (we can see by the part where Voldemort Confounds himself before the Mirror that he had thought about the concept of changing his mental state), and the Dark Lord is back in business
What would happen if he used the Philosopher's Stone on Voldemort's transfigured form? I guess the transfiguration would become irreversible.
He wants to figure out how to restore Quirrel, but is the risk of accidentally releasing Voldemort worth it?
People have speculated that making the transfiguration permanent would risk activating the Horcrux network.
I wondered the same thing, But couldn't he also later use the stone to reverse it by re-transfiguring it to Voldemort's body?
You can't transfigure (via free transfiguration) anything into a target you don't understand completely. Otherwise it will be just an imitation.