What did Voldemort do that was so great?

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No: HPFGUIDX 41848


> Cathubovda:
he influenced people to share his beliefs
The only people who seem to share his beliefs are the DEs, and by all 
accounts they're only a very small percentage of the wizarding 
population. (Even then, their loyalty is a bit suspect)  The majority 
of the WW seems to emphatically reject him and his beliefs, and as 
just about everyone wants him dead, I'm giving him an F in 
Charisma.<<<<<<<<<<
 
This is not true b/c at the end of GoF, Voldermort talks of how the 
Dementors and the Giants will join him. So I think that it's not just 
the DE's that the WW fear but they also fear the alliances that 
Voldermort will make with the Dementors. We know from the text that 
that the Dementors are very scary creatures and the Giants don't 
sound very nice either. I think the fact that he could get beasts of 
this nature to team up with him show his greatness and charisma. I 
mean I don't think that the Dementors or the Giants really need to 
team up with Voldermort in order to wreak havoc on the wizarding 
world. There must be something about Voldermort himself that makes 
teaming with him so attractive to these two groups. At the end of GoF 
Dumbledore sends Hagrid to talk to the Giants b/c he knows how 
powerful Voldermort is and he knows that he will team with them once 
again. He also tells Fudge to replace the Dementors as the guards of 
Azkaban. So I think there is greatness to Voldermort, not the kind 
that was found in leaders such as Martin Luther King or John F 
Kennedy, but there is greatness none the less, he is just working for 
the wrong side.
            -Monica