Duel Harry II

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 42985

Melody wrote:
> Grey Wolf wrote:
> 
> > Voldemort gives a wand to Harry because Harry's more powerful
> *without* a wand (check post 40044 for the complete theory, or just
> go down to the "Harry is more powerful without a wand" section). <<
> 
> Now me:
> 
> No, he gave Harry his wand because that is what you do in a duel.
> Both opponents choose thier weapons and turn and face each other.
> Duels have always been around to "show" the more manily of man. 
> Think rams butting heads or snakes wrestling...it is purely a
> showdown for the strongest to win. Usually it the winner gets to
> mate but that is beside the point here in Hogwarts-land. Voldemort
> believes and feels he has the upper hand and likes playing with his
> food.  What better way than to "follow the rules" of proper etiquette
> and duel like "civilized" gentlemen/gentlewizards. He is being
> civilrous and ironic with literature lovers love. It gives the bad
> guy a sense of elegance. In our muggle world we use pistols and
> swords; thiers are wands. It is, as Voldemort said,  what Dumbledore 
> wanted, right?
>
> Voldemort thought he had Potter caged where he wanted him and forgot
> about all the possibilites as he did before in the chamber as Riddle.
>  Excitement can cloud the mind, so can the carnal lust to be right.
> 
> Melody

That is your opinion, and as such I respect it, but it doesn't really 
fit with the Modus Operandi we've seen so far from Voldemort. You're 
basically painting him as someone who lets his feelings out of control 
and that allows hatred and excitement control his actions. Voldemort, 
IMO, is nothing like that. He's evil, he's cold and he's cruel only 
when in a safe position. Someone who allows his enemies a wand to face 
him wouldn't have lasted as much as Voldemort has, and would NOT have 
terrorised an entire country. The second or third time he had faced an 
auror he would've died.

Voldemort does *not* face his enemies fair and square. When he hears 
about an auror getting close, he sends a DE to AK the auror's family. 
He also AKs people who are not pure blooded for publicity reasons. That 
sort of deliberate cruelty is very difficult to mantain if you haven't 
got nerves of steel and a heart of ice. No, Voldemort so far has never 
gone for irony, ettiquete or civilized manner. What he wants, he takes, 
and always tries to play with marked cards and an a few ones in his 
pockets just in case. Someone who's planning immortality doesn't take 
unnecesary risks.

The graveyard duel was carefully planned by Voldemort to reduce the 
danger to himself and maximize Harry's chances of dying. Voldemort had 
failed once, and he's not the sort to allow a second one to happen. He 
doesn't understand that love saved Harry the first time, but he knows 
that something did. He hopes that the potion will have anulated the 
protection, but still is very careful with Harry. He does not hit Harry 
with an AK as soon as Harry arrives: if it rebounds and hits him or 
Peter, he's in trouble. He doesn't even hit him with an AK as soon as 
he recorpoates, but waits until he has made sure he can touch him, and 
yet still waits until he has debilitated Harry with Crucios for his 
body and Imperius for his mind. Notice that when Harry survives all 
this, Voldemort shows no surprise: he had already planned this. The 
only times his "eyes widdened in shock" are when the priori incantatem 
is starting and taking place. He had not planned that, and, just as 14 
years before, he does not know what's going on.

This is all part of a theory, based on solid canon, that Pip exposed in 
posts 36662 and 40044 and that I defend, and that we call MAGIC 
DISHWASHER. People have found flaws in it, so there's a nice long post 
by me in 39854 that resumes the first half of the theory and includes 
all the patches to the flaws. We never got down to resuming the second 
part, but fortunately is shorter than the first.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf