The magic power of love. Was: BANG! You're dead!

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86290

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mad_maxime" <souzia at l...> 
wrote:

> Mad Maxime:
> 
> Kneasy, it seems to me you are overestimating Voldemort.  Powerful 
as
> he may be, he has made one fatal mistake after another.  He seems to
> routinely underestimate his opponents and his prejudices blind him 
in
> ways that are detrimental to his health and well being. 

 
<snip>
 

> Two things we can be certain of though - Voldemort does not seem
> understand and/or underestimates the power of love, and he is most
> definitely not invincible. 


Geoff:

Look the other way Kneasy, I've got my cheerleader's togs on!

Voldemort's weak points are just like those of Sauron in LOTR. I have 
said this before; Gandalf points out that one of Sauron's weak spots 
is that he cannot conceive of anyone wanting to destroy the Ring to 
rid Middle-Earth of it.

He is looking for a scrap between the folk holding it and expects a 
new contender for the post of Dark Lord to be putting in an 
application form. 

(LOTR spoiler following)

In the chapter where Frodo, Sam (and Gollum) reach the Sammath Naur 
and Frodo puts on the Ring to claim it, Sauron realises his 
flaw. "...and the magnitude of his folly was revealed to him in a 
blinding flash..."

Maybe a pointer to Voldemort's weaknesses?

Geoff