What was V-mort's goal? (was: There is only power)

[erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002@yahoo.com>]

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Constance Vigilance wrote:

> In his first power grab, was his goal to start with domination over 
> Britain, or did he start with world domination as his first step? 
> The cause of my puzzlement is the inclusion of Karkaroff in the 
> Death Eaters. Either he happened to be in Britain during the first 
> recruiting round, or V-M had already expanded. What does everyone 
> think?

Now me:

There's not much in the books on this, but in an October 2000 
Scholastic interview, JKR was asked: "How does the Dark Lord affect 
American wizards and witches?" and she responded: "He affects 
everyone, but his plan is European domination first."

see: http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript2.htm

As for Karkaroff, Dumbledore tells Harry and the Weasleys at the end 
of CoS that after leaving Hogwarts, Tom Riddle "disappeared... 
travelled far and wide...consorted with the very worst of our kind" 
(Ch. 18).  So Riddle could have met up with Karkaroff (perhaps one of 
the worst of wizard-kind?) on his travels.

~Phyllis