Non-wizards with magical talent / Voldemort's Compitence

[psychodudeneo]

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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.

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?"

And that's only if Voldy doesn't know about the CoS incident.  
Because then it gets ever worse for You-Know-Who, having been 
defeated thrice.

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!"

No wonder all the DE's forsook him.