Antichrist!(insert main character here)

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 46354

I first argued against comparing Voldemort to the anti-christ of
Revelations.  Since then, it seems a few have taken the anti-christ
persona and run with it a little too far.  Why exactly, other than
shock value, is a wonder of mine, but hey, it is amusing to read even
if I dismiss it so easily.  So lets go to post quotes:


Alexander Lomski put forth on the table:
>>Yep. This seems to suit know whom? Yeah. Harry himself. :)
>>He is a prophet, and he has hypnotized many a character into
>>believing he has great fate to save the world... Fits so well with
>>my "Harry Potter Is Ever So Evil" theory... 8)

Harry Potter?  A prophet?  Him?  A prophet is one who speaks with
divine inspiration.  Ask Harry if he manages to sound divine around
Cho Chang.

And besides, Harry does not *have* to convince the WW that he has
"great fate to save the world".  He has already proven that fact quite
well.  And he wasn't even potty-trained yet.


Julie then placed another figure on the table:
>The antichrist. Comes across as someone so good that people believe
>he's good . . . until 1/2 way through the tribulation when it really
>becomes apparent that he's really evil.
>
>Here we are . . .1/2 way through the "tribulation" as someone put it
>earlier . . . and Dumbledore has a gleam in his eye . . . radiates a
>tangible power and has everyone believing he's absolutely good . . .
>and then again, he looks apprehensive when he sends Snape out to do
>whatever it is he must do . . . but it must have gone over well,
>because Snape at the Leaving Feast only a week later . . . and maybe
>was back earlier, as classes were still on . . .

Um, I am not quite sure what you were getting at with the last bit
about Snape, but Anti-Christ!Dumbledore...hmmm...interesting.
Interesting.  He has been perceived as almost "god-like".  And GoF is
the turning book of the series, so he has fit that pattern.  He looses
in the death and resurrection part of the anti-christ though.  Also,
the anti-christ is good only to persuade the masses he is the one to
rule the world.  Dumbledore has passed over that privilege.

Also, the Foe-Glass comes to mind.  I firmly believe magical objects
do not lie (maybe that is what I *want* to believe, but I see no
reason for them to lie).  So since Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall
were in the glass, and the glass belonged to Crouch Jr whose they saw
as evil for taking Harry away from safety, I would say it is very
clear that Dumbledore is not on evil's side.  Maybe that is a large
jump and great assumption on my part, but to me it is very clear.


Richelle wrote:
>>Well, considering we haven't really heard anything from Voldemort's
>>point of view, we don't know what he really tells people.  I think
>>he in the past had, and will in the future have more supporters than
>>we know of.  The Death Eaters are the elite.  There are supporters
>>that aren't actually in the inner circle.  For those who do support
>>Voldemort, they have been lulled into believing he is their answer.

Ok, I see what your saying.  There could be closet-Voldie supporters
that run under radar.  Big possibility.  We have, after all, only
heard from the big supports of both sides.  There had to be a few
country wizards and witches that had a poster of Voldie on a back wall.

I guess the question is why are the Death Eaters followers of
Voldemort?  What would they have to gain?  Don't they know evil
*always* looses to good?  Have they not studied history?  Well that is
a possibility with the way Prof. Binns teaches, and who know how long
that ghost has been at Hogwarts.

But once Voldie and his gang got out and about torturing and killing,
he was not under any presumptions of character.  His intent and goals
are no longer hidden.  All see him for what he is.  A *very* powerful
wizard who does some *very* bad things for some *very* wrong reasons.
 Now it seems the choice of the masses is to align themselves with
Voldemort by leaving him alone or be tortured and killed.  It was not
a attempt on Voldemort's part to bring supports on his rhetoric.  Only
on the quickness of his death happy wand.

The anti-christ bewitches (hehe) the world to believe his intentions
are good, and his goals are the ideals to attain.  That is when evil
really takes over.  When it reaches into the mind and convinces the
world it is not evil.  It seems to me that Voldie has not figured that
fact out.  Hitler did.  He brainwashed a nation.  Voldie seems to not
have such a campaign.

He wants to have all the power.  Complete dictatorship.  He alone
knows what is best for all the world.  He wants children to think of
him when they sing "He's got the whole world in his hands."

So, that is my opinion.  No anti-christ!main characters.

I know - that view is boring.  Sorry.  My creative box of crayons is
at a friend's house.


Melody