Non-wizards with magical talent / Voldemort's Compitence

bluesqueak pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk
Tue Oct 1 06:59:18 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 44732

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "psychodudeneo" <psychomaverick at h...> 
wrote:
> I'm sure I'll get him NEXT time!".
> 
> Take for example, the end scene of GoF.  Voldemort makes what will 
> probably turn out to be the greatest mistake of his career.  He 
> gives Harry a fighting chance.
> 
> I'm sure the assembled Death Eaters were thinking the same thing I 
> was.
> 
> "Wow.  What an idiot."
> 
> This is similar to the way traditional villains capture the hero 
> and place him in a cell somewhere with one inept guard to make sure 
>they  don't escape.  It's blatant stupidity.
> 

Err... No. It isn't. 

I did a very long analysis of the graveyard scene back in post 
#40044, and in fact Voldemort is not being stupid at all. There's 
some evidence (its all in #40044) that Harry is currently *less* 
effective with his wand than he is without it. Don't forget - Harry's 
still a student, learning to use his wand.

*Without* his wand otoh, he came incredibly close to killing 
Voldemort at the tender age of one.

> Even Voldemort, megalomaniac that he is, should've thought:
> 
> "Gee, this kid whooped my arse twice before.  Maybe I shouldn't arm 
> him and try to fight him again?  Maybe I should just kill him now 
> that I have him trapped?"
> 
<Snip>

Again, if you read that scene through, you *can* come to the 
conclusion that Voldemort would love to kill Harry, but isn't 
entirely certain that he's going to be *able* to. He tries to weaken 
Harry first - by the tying to the gravestone, by the crucios, and 
then doesn't actually launch his AK until Harry is concentrating on 
another spell.
> 
> I can only hope that Voldemort, at the climax of Book 5, doesn't 
>give  Harry his wand, a bazooka, some grenades, and a trained dragon 
> while exclaiming to his minions:
> 
> "I'll beat him this time, just WATCH!"

He might well let Harry have a bazooka. Harry doesn't know how to use 
a bazooka. [grin]
> 
> No wonder all the DE's forsook him.

Ah, but did they?

Pip!Squeak

[who managed to get through the entire post without mentioning the 
words that mean magic-things-which-are-very-handy-to-have-in-the-
kitchen*]

[Especially if you hold lots of dinner parties].





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