4 Voldemort Phases (was re: Pureblood DE and Knights of Walpurgis)

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 78867

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tamee Livingston" 
<tamliv at w...> wrote:
> 4. Voldemort reborn.  Now we come to the current Voldemort, the one 
who
> spent13 (is that number right?) years barely surviving, brooding on 
Harry
> Potter, who once again in the Graveyard thwarted him and made him 
look weak.
> And he is weak right now, and Harry has become his obsession.  He 
knows that
> unless he can kill Harry, he will never be the power he once was.  
He'll
> never strike the terror he once did.  So now his obsession is not 
so much to
> control the world, but to destroy his enemy, and regain his 
invulnerability.
> I think that's why Voldemort isn't so frightening now.  He's 
already been
> vanquished once and so now his focus has shifted.

You forget that Voldemort has several projects going in parallel,
with Harry being only one (albeit important) one. He's recruited
the dementors, most giants and perhaps others already. He has
already split the wizarding world and is seeding conflict and
confusion - just see the state of the Ministry of Magic - supposedly
the centerpiece of resistance to him. It is implied that he is
talking to the goblins (imagine him taking over the financial
resources of WW). Then let's not forget Trelawney's
second prophecy about him rising "greater and more terrible
than ever before". No, I think you grossly underestimate him.

True, he is obsessed with killing Harry, but he does not let that
take him away from the rest of his plans. He was in stealth mode
until now, that's all.

Salit