anti-christ!Voldie (was: Everybody Dies! biblically?)

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 46292

Chris asked:
>Is the antichrist not suppose to die in some form and come back?
>That fits Voldemort's situation pretty much.

Richelle answered:
>Mmm, interesting.  And that's when the world is to accept the
>antichrist,when he died and came back alive.  So is the WW going to
>more widely accept Voldemort?  Are more "good guys" going to turn
>away now that Voldemort has "risen?"



This concept annoys me.  The idea of Voldemort as a play on the
anti-christ just does not sit well.  I guess don't like the idea
because it implies if Voldie is the anti-christ then Harry is Jesus,
and that thought annoys me more.

Yet, anti-christ Voldie does pattern well.

To the WW, Voldemort was dead.  They lifted their glasses, donned
their festive celebration cloaks, and partied like it was 1999.  So to
them, end-of-GoF Voldemort has risen again.

Still, Voldemort?  An anti-christ?  And anti-christ is a false prophet
that hypnotizes the world to believe he is the savior of the world.
His goal, of course, is global domination, so Voldie does manage to
work that angle, but the anti-christ lulls the world into believing he
is the answer to all their problems.  Voldemort does not seem to be
setting up any sort of mass brainwashing to bend the WW to his favor.
 He has his few followers and is working to subdue or destroy,
whichever really is most convenient, everyone else.

Yet, that is pre-resurrected Voldie.  I still hate to call it a
resurrection.  To resurrect someone, they must be dead first.  Voldie
never died.  Fawkes dies.  That bird has no life left in him and then
is born again in his ashes.  Dead then alive.  Voldie is a semi-odd
state of being of not really ghost not really a shadow that gets a
body.  No resurrection.  Just rebodiment.

But to the regular Mom and Pop wizard, Voldie was dead, so lets looks
at it from their perspective.  This really evil wizard and his gang of
evil sounding death-eaters goes around terrorizing all for ten years.
 Ak'ing the dog.  Torturing the cat cross-eyed.  Imperiusing the gold
fish to swim backwards.  No one knows what to do, everything is
breaking down -- when out of the heavens comes the strangest thing of all.

This dark evil wizard is gone.  Seemingly forever.  Merriment and
laughter is heard again in the streets, all is brought to good.
Goldfish start swimming straight.  The cat is still grumpy, but hey,
you can't win them all.  Basically, they can all become complacent again.

So now that Voldemort has seemingly "resurrected" from the grave,
somewhat literally [hey, never saw that before], will Mom and Pop
wizard be amazed by the wonder?  Will they enter the streets and say,
"Hey, he is ever so powerful.  I think he should be our leader.  Our
god.  No one can resurrect themselves like he can."

Based on the reaction from the students at the end of GoF, I would
think not.  They were not amazed Voldie managed to feat of
resurrecting.  They were horrified.  To parallel this back to the
anti-christ, when the anti-christ dies and resurrects himself, the
world will be amazed because, and this is important, there is *no* way
to resurrect yourself in *our* world.  In the wizard world, it seems
to be a complete possibility.  Granted a hard to accomplish feat, but
a feat that is possible none the same as long as the person is not
already dead.  The WW is not shocked he managed to do it, but are more
scared he is back - again.  Scared also by the fact, they were wrong
and he wasn't dead.  Maybe the idea that this wizard cannot die will
frighten more to kiss his hem, but Voldemort is not out to win over
the masses.

After all, Voldemort is not setting up a campaign to bake cookies,
socialize with the commoners, and convince the world he wants to end
world hunger and the oppression of house elfs.  He wants to take it by
force.  He give no false pretenses to this either.  All know this.
All know he is evil and *extremely* powerful.  They are not deceived.
 Gracious, even the death-eaters are not deceived.

Yet in the middle of the tribulation, in the middle of the HP series,
anti-christ!Voldemort returns to strength.  A feat not expected by the
regular wizards.  And returns more powerful and more terrible.  Will
this divide the WW more?  Seems it was not too divided in the first
place.  Just universally terrorized by a gang of outlaw wizards.  They
might of been a little divided on how to deal with Voldie, but it
seems generally they all didn't like him (that is an understatement).

So will more accept him now?  I don't know.  I would not like to think
so.  But fear of power and pain is a powerful decision-maker sometimes.

Hey, I just thought of something.  Voldemort even has a "mark of the
beast".  That is amusing.  Still doesn't convince me, but is amusing.


Melody