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[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 24719

Amber:"I do realize that Voldemort is not perfect. He has to make 
mistakes, fatal mistakes that bring about his downfall. However, I 
just don't like it when Villains make ridiculous mistakes. And 
untying Harry and giving his wand back was a ridiculous mistake in my 
mind. If Voldemort makes any others in the next books, I'll be quite 
upset."

Don't be. It's actually realistic.  Evil psychos, especially evil 
dictator psychos, tend to make stupid mistakes out of their own 
craziness or arrogance; Hitler invading Russia 150 years after 
Napoleon broke himself doing the exact same thing is a good example 
of it.

OTOH, I can understand being annoyed at this plot device, which Roger 
Ebert, the movie critic, refers to as "The Fallacy of the Talking 
Killer."  How many movies would have ended half an hour earlier if 
some thug hadn't just shut up and pulled the trigger?

Voldemort is a psycho villain. That's why I'm more afraid of Lucius, 
who is a sane villain, and thus much more dangerous.