DEs knowing about Pettigrew (was re: too many topics to list)

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 42714

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> wrote:
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> But it brings up an interesting side point. Was V-Mort so arrogant 
> that he didn't make arrangements for someone to take over in case 
> something happened to him? Even Hitler had a second-in-command 
ready 
> to step in if one of those assassination attempts had ever worked.
> 
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> 
> Of course, V-Mort could have been so confident that he didn't make 
> such plans.

Well, Hitler genuinely believed the Nazi ideals and dedicated himself 
to fulfilling them. Therefore, he could envision (presumably) a 
future in which he was gone but the Fatherland continues. Unlike him, 
Voldemort doesn't have an ideological wrapper around his psycopathy. 
Voldemort is Evil in the nude, so to speak, there's no ideology to 
blur his egomania, his total need for absolute power. 
I don't think Voldemort isn't capable of envisioning his own death on 
a real, gut feeling level. On the intellectual level? 
For Voldemort, I'm sure his reaction to "what happens if you die?" 
would be "after me, the deluge." 


Naama