Wandless!Harry - A Fatal Flaw?/Fawkes' Tail Feather in H+V's wands

[greg_a126]

No: HPFGUIDX 43137

I have a lot of problems w/ the whole, "Voldemort let Harry escape 
on purpose" theory, but basically it comes down to this:

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:
> Phyllis wrote:
> Voldemort can hope he'll kill the brat, but he's not going to 
suffer if 
> he escapes again. It doesn't loom to big. After all, his real eney 
is 
> Dumbledore, and last time, it was easy to beat him. If Harry grows 
to 
> be another Dumbledore, it still won't be enough to stop him from 
taking 
> over the WW once again.

Yes, we all know, because we're following Harry's life, that he's 
not even the best wizard in his class when it comes to that sort of 
thing.  But that's not what Harry Potter means to the WW.  Harry 
Potter is a symbol.  He, when he was a little over 1 year old, 
defeated the worst dark lord in over 100 years.  A dark lord so 
terrible that nearly 15 years later people are still afraid to say 
his name.  

For all of a wizard's advantages in their daily life, they are an 
incredibly backwards culture, stuck in the middle ages.  There have 
been bad men in the Muggle world too.  But none of them has ever 
been referred to as "You-Know-Who".  Joseph Stalin for example, 
killed 25 million of his own citizens, had a ton of nuclear weapons 
to kill millions more if he so desired, yet no one ever called him 
You-Know-Who.  

So what does that mean?  These people are absolutely terrified.  
Harry Potter is the reason many of them are going to fight.  If 
Harry's dead body had been sent to the Daily Prophet, w/ a little 
note on it from Lord Voldemort, I think a ton of them just would've 
given up.  But now that he's escaped, he's Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-
Lived, the Tri-Wizard champion, and one of the few people who has 
ever escaped the Dark Lord's wrath & he's now done it 3 times.  But 
most important of all, he's the Boy-Who's-Living.

Voldemort can't take over the WW until Harry & Dumbledore are both 
dead.  Until then, he can be a royal pain, but he can't rule.  Once 
they're both dead, he's the Minister of Magic until he dies.  He 
knows that.  He knows that as long as Harry is alive, there are 
always going to be people who oppose him.  Why bother to send a tiny 
little bit of disinformation via Harry, when there are so many other 
ways to do it.  Snape for instance, is almost certain to at least 
try & take up his spying post again.  It'd take a few weeks to send 
everything via Snape, at most, and then the deed would be done, but 
Harry would be dead.  

The other thing, "After all, his real eney is Dumbledore, and last 
time, it was easy to beat him."  I don't think that's true at all.  
If it was, why didn't he?  I think the best that either could do 
would be hurt each other enough that they'd both die.  The fact that 
Dumbledore is probably the only wizard alive who would have a chance 
at killing him is enough to keep Voldemort away until he's sure of 
his immortality.  At the same time, Dumbledore is aware of his 
importance to the good guys, and isn't willing to get into a fight 
that may lead to his death, but not Voldemort's and the good guys 
would lose the war.  

Greg