[HPforGrownups] Voldemore the family man

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2336

eggplant88 at hotmail.com wrote:

> Somebody asked why just before Lilly Potter was killed Voldemore
> yelled "get out of the way" when she tried to protect Harry? Why
> didn't he just blast everyone in sight?

Oh, probably because by that time, the fact that anyone would oppose him
face-to-face was probably a novelty, and made him mad. It's part of crushing
your enemies to make them do what you say, before (or sometimes whether) you
kill them.

> Why did he later say that she didn't have to die?

I'm in the "because he's evil and said it to be mean to Harry" school, so
far.

> It's pure speculation on my part but perhaps the
> reason is that even Voldemore would hesitate just a bit before he
> murdered his own daughter.

I doubt that, even if she were his daughter (which I also doubt). I'm
putting Voldemort in the class of Shaka Zulu (in the movie, don't know if
this is fact), who killed his son to keep him from ever taking the throne
away from himself.

> The reason he never said anything about
> this in Goblet Of Fire is that he didn't want his death eaters to
> know that Harry Potter was his grandson, he probably wasn't very
> proud of having a daughter who's a mudblood either.

But if she's his daughter, she's not a mudblood. Clearly, for wizard-world
purposes, it's heredity over environment.

*And* I just thought that Voldemort's ego is such that he'd trumpet the
relationship to the skies, as an explanation---the only thing strong enough
to overcome me, was my own blood! See how potent it is? Etc., you get the
idea. Not even counting how much fun it would be to torment Harry with the
relationship.

--Amanda