Voldemorts Resurrection WAS The Spying Game and the Shrieking Shack

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 39710

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

> Dumbledore carefully prevents Voldemort from getting the 
> Philosopher's Stone, but appears to make no effort to, say, ensure 
> that the Riddle's bodies are respectably reburied in a secret 
> location (or cremated), or to prevent Voldemort setting up in the
old 
> family mansion.  Not even though he knows exactly which village 
> Voldemort's father grew up in, follows news about it closely enough 
> to  know all about Frank Bryce's death in the old Riddle mansion - 
> and has a potions expert on hand to suggest a possible potion 
> Voldemort might use. 

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> The spell Voldemort uses requires a servant's flesh and an enemy's 
> blood, which are both rather widely available. It also requires the 
> bone of Voldemort's father, which is much more limited in supply and 
> could have been destroyed. The fact that it wasn't suggests that 
> Dumbledore was deliberately trying to make sure Voldemort only had 
> one resurrection option open to him. 

That doesn't make sense to me.  If Dumbledore could engineer it so
that Voldemort had only one resurrection option left, then why not
take that final step and remove the last option, too?  That would
leave Voldemort with no resurrection options at all and solve
everybody's problems.  (Well, except Voldemort's, obviously.)

Instead, Dumbledore allows Voldemort to come back, betting that *all*
of the following circumstances will be true:

1. Voldemort won't discover some other method Dumbledore doesn't know
about.

2. Voldemort will not use some enemy other than Harry.

3. Voldemort will acquire "blood of the enemy" by decorously nicking
Harry's arm rather than, say, slicing open his jugular.

4. Voldemort won't kill Harry as soon as the resurrection ritual is
complete.

5. Voldemort, Wormtail, and all other assembled DEs will fail to kill
Harry.

6. Harry will have a Portkey or some other escape device handy to help
him get away.

7. After all that rigamarole, the resulting weakness in Voldemort will
actually be enough to ensure his defeat.

The number of random variables here is just staggering, and if any one
of the above items goes wrong (and we still have no guarantee on #7),
the WW is once against stuck with a sadistic invincible Dark Lord
wreaking havoc.  If that's Dumbledore's idea of "having control over
circumstances," then I don't think "gray" is the right color for him. 
I'm not sure what the color for total idiocy is, but that's what I'd
be painting him.


> Marina writes:
> Stupid and Overconfident are Voldemort's middle names, or at least 
> they should be after his performance in GoF. 
> 
> Yup. 'his performance.' Good choice of words there. [grin]. Snape 
> isn't the only good actor in this series.
> 

Ah.  I see.  Voldemort was actually intelligent and realistic, and
knew that Harry might very well escape, so instead of intelligently
and realistically wringing the kid's neck while he's tied up,
Smart!Voldy *pretends* to be stupid and overconfident, bending over
backwards to give Harry every possible opportunity to escape, until he
finally does.  "I don't want him to think I'm smart, in case he
escapes, so I'll pretend I'm stupid by letting him escape." Is there
any stupid paint left in that bucket?  I think I'll use it on Voldy
after I'm done with Dumbledore.

Marina (who wishes to make it clear that her problems with this theory
do not in any way interfere with her belief in Competent!Snape)
rusalka at ix.netcom.com