Blood of an enemy

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 9979

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...> 
wrote:
> Great theory!!  That's the one major problem I have with the 
7-book-long
> attempt by Voldemort to kill Harry... Why doesn't somebody just pick 
him off
> with a long-range rifle?  Surely there are dark wizards out there 
that might
> learn how to shoot straight with a Muggle weapon -- or Voldemort 
could even
> EMPLOY some Muggle Thugs to do the dirty deed for him.  But 
noooooo....
> Voldemort has to do it himself.  I though he was stupid to try to 
kill Harry
> with the Avada Kedavra curse in the graveyard, seeing as how it 
backfired so
> nastily on him the first time he tried it some 13-years ago.  But 
then,
> Voldemort has apparently NOT read the Evil Overlord's list -- he's a
> remarkably cartoony figure.

I take V at his word:  he thinks he can kill Harry now because things 
have changed.  He thinks Harry survived the first time because of "a 
lucky chance" (Lily's sacrifice) and in PS/SS because V couldn't touch 
him.  Now there is no one there to protect him and, as V demonstrates, 
he can now touch Harry without harming himself.  And as others have 
said, he's supremely arrogant and it's very important for him that the 
Death Eaters see that he is more powerful than Harry (and Dumbledore). 
 He would be very disappointed if Harry just got killed by a Bludger, 
or even by one of his own assassins.

I think Gwen's theory is interesting though.  

Amy Z