Black Eyes!! , more musings about Voldemort

[pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it]

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I won't have much time to write during the next days, so I give up 
every self-restraint today.

Just one short word about black eyes: I'd willingly swap even with 
Neville Longbottom just to see Snape every day! (I've just managed to 
see the full version of the trailer- who'd have guessed? ;))

OK, let's become serious: In some post of last week, I read the )
(uncontradicted) phrase that Voldemort is heading towards world 
domination. IMHO, that's simply not true: He himself says to his DEs 
that (inexact quotation, as I have lent the book to my best friend) 
his "ultimate goal was to conquer DEATH". Why else would he have 
thought of giving his followers the strange name of "Death Eaters"? 
And wouldn't he have, during 11 years of steady rise to power, 
thought of expanding his reign outside England, if he had really 
aimed at dominating the world? As far as we know, wizard and Muggle 
killings have all taken place in England, there is no hint whatsoever 
at any V-activities in other countries. All the DEs are English, with 
the exception of Karkaroff, who IMO went to Hogwarts and was living 
in England, before being sentenced and, some time after his release, 
named Headmaster of Durmstrang.
World domination would be a bit cliché, wouldn't it? It would make 
Voldemort another Lex Luthor or Dr. Mabuse. I think that conceiving 
him as the person who tries to overcome the ultimate obstacle, makes 
him a lot more frightening than "poltical" ambition.

Susanna