[HPforGrownups] Re: The Cup as Portkey Question

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 14081

At 04:27 AM 3/11/01 +0000, Trina wrote:
>Yes, but it would not have the theatricality of returning in front of
>the entire school and honored guests, and let's face it, Voldy likes
>putting on a show.  He's been exiled for 13 years by a fluke of
>chance (in his eyes at least) in the form of an unkillable baby.  He
>doesn't just want to kill Harry and quietly get on with his hostile
>takeover; he wants everyone to *know* he's killed Harry and that he
>and his minions are back in force.

Which on reflection seems actually a bit foolish on Voldy's part.
Isn't he in a better position this way, with the Wizarding World
more divided than the Democrats, half of them refusing to believe
he's back?  A dramatic demonstration would have united the good
guys and "filled them with a terrible resolve", to quote one unusally
wise Japanese warlord who saw the folly of Pearl Harbor.



                                                 -- Dave