He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Name (who Voldemort?) Shhh!!!!

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 13421

I know that it's not time for our discussion on everyone's favourite 
villian, but the it is scheduled for next week so I will jump ahead. 
I'm sort of responding to something that was posted in the past week 
(what I can't remember after plowing through 300+ messages. Do ya 
think I need a rememberall? No don't answer that I would just forget 
where I'd put it...)

Nota Bene: I am NOT supposed to be giving Voldy's character summary, 
and that's NOT what this is. It's only my ramblings on the big V.

"Could you write it down?" Harry suggested?

"Nah-can't spell it. All right- *Voldemort*." Hagrid shuddered. "Don' 
make me say it again..."

--Would there be a Harry Potter story without Voldemort? Probably 
not. Yet as important to the plot as he is there are some real 
problems with him in my opinon. Voldemort may be a murdering 
psychopath but he is your TYPICAL murdering psyhopath. He is very 
predictable. 

In other words, Hannibal Lecter he's not. (However I liked Hannibal 
the movie and loved Scilence of the Lambs. The books were still 
better though. As much as I probably should hate Hannibal "the 
Cannibal" I don't. I really wanted him and Clarice to get together at 
the end, as unrealistic as that is...erm how did I get on THIS 
subject? Oh yeah-)

Cedric Diggory's death showed that Voldemort was evil, and that he 
didn't care who he killed to get what he wanted. However Voldemort 
himself had no personal connections to Diggory, (does he have any 
personal connections to ANYONE) and so this made it seem I don't know 
"less". A villian that can kill his "friends" without any remorse is 
far scarier than one that simply kill those that he doesn't know to 
gain power. Perhaps this is a personal perception.

Voldemort is to me the weakest part of the HP stories, (the Trio's 
friendship being one of the strongest).  He was in book one and he 
tried to kill Harry. Harry wins, and he HAS to so that he can be in 
book II right? In the second he tries yet again to kill Harry...and 
so on. That is why I liked PoA so much because Harry was dealing with 
"inner demons" brought out through the Dementors instead of a 
storybook villian.

Again I am NOT saying that Voldemort is not a serious villian or that 
the war he will seemingly cause in future willn't be devastating and 
hit Harry and our other characters very hard. But evil as a concept 
can be more frightening than its incarnation (i.e. Voldy). So what is 
scarier- Voldemort himself, or how people become Voldemort?  

How will Harry continue to fight the big V in the future?
Will Harry defeat Voldemort completely at the end of book seven, even 
if it kills him?* 
*(Will he defeat VOLDEMORT not necessarialy EVIL?)

Scott
Who has decided to once again use his favourite sig...
Oh by the way that last picture of Harry smiling in the Trailer DOES 
look like John Lennon.
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"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in 
fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your 
mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the 
here and now?  Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John 
Lennon