Killing Harry, Smart!Voldemort (WAS Spying Game II )

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> Having missed out *completely* on MAGICDISHWASHER, I have decided 
> to offer my own thoughts on SpyGame II before it is too late.  Even 
>  if I have nothing to say worth saying.  ;-)
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> > ***The Portkey is two-way to allow Harry a line of retreat. ***
> > 
> > It has been suggested that Voldemort is going to use the two-way 
> > Portkey to launch an attack directly into Hogwarts, using the 

> > > element of surprise.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > This suggests that the Portkey can have only one use - if its 
> > deliberately two way nature is NOT aimed at Death Eaters, it can 

> > only be aimed at Harry. Voldemort has given Harry a line of 
retreat. 
> 
> Uh oh.  
> 
> I was really rolling there with Pip, particularly as she was making 
> *so* much headway with Smart!Voldemort.  But then we do an about-
> face and go straight back to DumbAsAFencepost!Voldemort.  Plan B is 
> that Voldemort is going to *let* Harry escape so that Harry can go 
> get *stronger*?  So that he can learn how to use his wand, learn 
> how to cast Dark Curses, learn to defend himself, and generally 
> grow into a Superhero?   So that Harry will be really ready and 
> experienced and cool as a cucumber when it is time for their next 
> confrontation?
> 
> Whoa!  Doesn't the Evil Overlord Handbook say anything about 
> *that*?  
> 
> Eh, well, maybe it's in the footnotes.  ;-)
> 
> I think that the only way Harry was getting out of that graveyard 
> was over Voldemort's dead body.  Voldemort didn't *want* there to 
> be three more books.  Oh, no.  He was ending it right there, and he 
> didn't need or want a Plan B.  

> 
> Cindy

Hmm...
Believe it or not, I actually hadn't thought of the idea that the two-
way nature of the Triwizard cup might have been an accident caused by 
its already being enchanted as a PortKey to get the winner out of the 
maze safely. [ blush ] 

I think that was Alexander's suggestion? Smart thinking, whoever it 
was :-).

But, while this gives MUCH more credence to Smart!Voldemort, so much 
so, that I'd be quite happy to say, consider it as alternative B2, I 
still think Plan B (giving Harry misinformation) was in operation. 
Harry has just escaped too many times for Smart!Voldemort not to 
consider that it might happen again, however much he tried to prevent 
it.

What makes Plan B very likely indeed is that Voldemort is a liar 
anyway. Harry catches him out in the very first book (PS/SS p. 213). 
JKR also describes him as a liar in one of her interviews (I'm having 
serious problems getting online ATM, so can't look the reference 
up.) - he lies about Hagrid keeping werewolf cubs under his bed. And 
Harry *might* have turned out too powerful to kill or capture - in 
fact, he comes extremely close to being just that.

Pip (who has currently subjected her computer to every virus scan and 
test known to a handy CompSci undergrad; all of which say there is 
nothing wrong. But still gets Gobbledegook downloaded 50% of the 
time.)