Voldemort's Strategy (was Loss of/Harry's Special Powers)

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No: HPFGUIDX 10158

Penny wrote:

> > I definitely agree with Lori and others that there must be 
more to infant Harry's defeat of Lord V than just Lily's sacrifice & 
layer of protection.  He and his Death Eaters waged a long & 
seemingly costly war against both the wizarding & muggle 
populations.  It hardly seems likely to me that  not one
> > single person other than Lily Potter tried to save or died to 
save another human being during that war.  I think there's 
definitely something special about Harry.  I don't think we'll know 
it all though until after Book 7.
> > 

And Kimberly wrote:
> I've been thinking long and hard about this since it was pointed 
out > to me that while Lily's sacrifice may have protected Harry 
from death, > it wasn't what caused Voldemort to loose his 
power.


You're right.  The one problem is that we don't know *what* Lily's 
powers were.  We do know now that Lily needn't to have died.  
(I've read theories and fanfics ranging from the plausible (she 
wasn't a direct descendant of Gryffindor) to the ridiculous 
(Muggle-born Lily was a secret Death Eater!).

I thnk that the combination of her sacrifice *along with* 
something innate in baby Harry caused his protection and V's 
downfall.  What I'm wondering is that if all of our "There's 
Something About Harry" inklings prove correct--if he could have 
protected his parents and completely Voldemort if he was fully 
matured.

Prophecy detractors say that if there WAS something special 
about Harry--some "messiah figure" prophecy--we would have 
heard about it by now.  Again--Harry was in the wizarding world 
three years before he heard the Sirius Black "story".  There is still 
a lot that he doesn't know, doesn't particularly care to know, and 
that has been kept from him.  

Going back to Voldemort, I have to wonder what magical means 
he could devise to kill Harry.  Even if the Killing Curse ("Avada 
Kedavra") is the worst in this milieu (I very seriously doubt that for 
some reason), I doubt very seriously that Voldemort would try it 
again.  I'm also not sure how effective it would be.

Harry can indubitably be killed by the regular Muggle means, 
although if I were Voldemort, I'd try decapitation or multiple 
gunshot wounds... I get the strange feeling that hanging, single 
bullets, electric shock, and incineration wouldn't be quite so 
effective... especially as Harry matures in magical ability.

So the question that will compel us for the next three books is:  
What will Voldemort's strategy be?

Also, what is Voldemort's main objective--power?  Revenge?  
Genocide?  Spreading the Death Eater "gospel"?  Or all of the 
above?

I have my own half-baked theories.  What are yours?

--Ebony AKA AngieJ