[HPforGrownups] LV delusions of superiority Was (Re: Crouch Sr. under imperius)

[Liz Sager]

No: HPFGUIDX 35180

>From: "uncmark" <uncmark at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Why all the intricate twists in his plan?

Well...honestly, would you have read "Harry Potter and the Transfiguration 
Textbook"? Probably not. You needed something exciting like the Triwizard 
Tournament going on.

>Wormtail was right. LV could easily use another wizard that wan't as
>protected as Harry.

Yes, but *he wanted Harry*. He killed two birds with one stone in that he is 
now back from body banishment (I can't really bring myself to call it 
death), and now he can touch his greatest enemy without hurting himself.

They easily caught Moody, the master Auror. LV's
>flaw in reasoning is that he believes himself superior to all oyhers
>and simply doesn't consider that a 11 year old girl might resist or
>that Harry might have a chance at beating him.

Exactly. Lord Voldemort is your Evil, Unassailable Dark Lord (as I am so 
fond of saying). He's nasty, he's not nice to anybody, he shoots first and 
asks questions later, he manipulates people as it suits him, and he's 
arrogant.

>One outcome of ChoS that is rarely mentioned is that Harry
>saved the only girl of a powerful family. The Weasley's would all
>fight for Harry without fear!

Yes, go Harry. No doubt in my mind that the Weasleys are indeed an important 
family in the wizarding world.

>Harry antagonizes a powerful dark wizard to free a subhuman elf! Whay
>would any young wizard waste his time on that? Harry now has Dobby as
>a unquestioning ally. Elves at Hoqwart's would never interfere in
>Human issues, except for Dobby (who may inspire the others).

I don't know that I'd say antagonizes...tricks, yes. Harry gives his sock to 
Lucius, Lucius, in a moment of not thinking (one of several, I am sure), 
hands sock over to his House Elf in confusion and befuddlement. Lucius is of 
course very angry and Dobby reciprocates his thanks to Harry by blasting 
Lucius down a flight of stairs.

Elves in this world seem to be very powerful magically, and their magic 
looks to follow a different set of rules than human magic does, and would 
probably be a key ally into winning the war. They have, however been 
opressed probably for centuries and generations.

>In ChofS Tom Riddle soesn't even consider the appearence of a Phoenix
>a Sorting Hat an issue. In GofF, he never looks into the significance
>that both Harry and him have phoenix wands.

Once again, Ye Olde Evil Lord Arrogance kicking in with the sorting hat. He 
forgets that phoenix tears heal wounds. I don't think that he knew he and 
Harry had Phoenix core wands, let alone brother wands. Another intersting 
thing about the wood of the wands is the type. Yew (Voldemort's wand) is a 
symbol for death, and is usually found in cemetaries, and Holly (Harry's 
wand) is a symbol of eternal life (because of the berries, this is also why 
its a common decoration at Christmas time). :D

>The most unbelievable break in LV's plan (which convinces me of his
>psychosis) is that Tom Riddle, a half-blood muggleborne, is now
>driven to kill all muggles! Picture if Hitler's mother was secretly
>Jewish.

As has been said in an earlier post, and unless I am wrong which is quite 
likely as I am not a biographer, Hitler had some form of Jewish heritage.

I think the basic theory behind Tom's reasoning is his bitterness towards 
his father. "My dad was a bad muggle, he abandoned my mother when he found 
out she was a witch, down with muggles!" That sort of thing.

>I'm wondering how significant Dumbledore's look was when he heard
>that LV had used Harry's blood. Is LV now vulnerable?

I dont' buy the Evil!Dumbledore theory at all. Just to say that.

>Does Fawkes and the Phoenix Wands have special significance as the
>next book is 'Order of the Phoenix?

*strokes chin* Could be...

Liz (who thinks Evil!Dumbledore is like Competent!Fudge)

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