Voldemort's support in and pre-GOF (was Spying game)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 39702

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:

> David replies:
> <Snip>
> > In what sense do you mean Malfoy is lying: he proclaims his  
> > loyalty - do you mean that he proclaims an ineffective loyalty
when 
> > in fact he is effective in his loyalty?
> > 
> > For whose benefit is Voldemort's performance?  Unless he intends 
> > Harry to escape, what is the point of the charade?
> 
> Voldemort does hope that Harry will not escape, but he and Malfoy
are 
> providing misinformation on the assumption that he might. Again,
this 
> is going to take a long post to prove. But by the end of GoF Harry 
> has survived At-the-height-of his-power Voldemort, 
> Quirrell/Voldemort, Tom Riddle/Voldemort, as well as assorted 
> Dementors, werewolves, giant spiders, a dragon... how stupid and 
> overconfident would you have to be to assume that *this* time, you 
> are going to get it right and kill the brat! ;-)

How about, so stupid and overconfident that you *untie the brat and
give him his wand back*?  Stupid and Overconfident are Voldemort's
middle names, or at least they should be after his performance in
GoF.  His behavior there simply doesn't mesh with the behavior of
someone who's carefully hedging his bets against the possibility of
failure.

Marina
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