Voldemort and the Death Eaters

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No: HPFGUIDX 28658

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
> Secondly, having found his followers largely among pureblood bigots,
> Voldemort may well feel that persecuting Mudbloods is a cheap, easy 
way to
> keep his followers happy and cooperative. 

Uh, lest we forget, Tom Riddle was killing muggles and Mudbloods 
before he graduated Hogwarts.  He seriously hates muggles, and 
totally bought in to the Sal SLytherin purity deal long before any 
but his closest friends had ever heard the name Lord Voldemort.

>Since Voldemort's followers are NOT  the trustworthy type, he may 
well just allow them to work off their frustrations on Mudbloods and 
Muggles (and, in the case of Muggles, feel that this is payback for 
whatever mistreatment he suffered at Muggle hands---that orphanage 
sounds ominous) because it is easier than having to watch his own 
back lest, say, McNair, Malfoy Sr. and Avery put their heads
together and decide to eliminate him.<

While the potential for a double cross exists, the greater liklihood 
is that Malfoy and company would never get rid of VOldemort unless 
Voldemort stared eliminating PureBloods and DeathEaters 
without "reason".  Its like having Shaq on your basketball team.  No 
matter how much you may dislike or fear him, you are going to win 
alot more games with him on your team than without.

Moreover, the Pure Bloods are seriously in awe of this guy.  He is, 
with the possible exception fo Dumbly, the "greatest wizard of the 
age", and probably the most powerful Dark Wizard of any age.  For 
folks that dig power, that's a hell of a resource.  Many just want to 
learn from him.  He probably taught them how to do Avada Kedavra and 
so on, dug those spells out from the depths of antiquity, and then 
gave them the nerve to use them.

Again, I am no psycohologist, but Voldemort strikes me as a serious 
sociopath, with enourmous self image issues and delusions of grandeur 
thrown in.  Let's not let him off the hook as a pawn of the cool 
headed Slytherin elites.  Let's call him what he is.  A sadistic 
murderer bent on genocide.  Now the Hitler analogy fits.