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

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No: HPFGUIDX 86316

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at a...> 
wrote:
> --- 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. 
> 
> 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..."
> 

Usually I'm a sucker for tights and boots with high heels, but Geoff,
wouldn't it be better  if you shaved your legs?

Now, what weaknesses has Voldy shown? Impatience, maybe; an
unfortunate  tendency to gloat (bad news on the Evil Overlord list
of do's and don'ts). But not much else.

I  can't agree with Maxine that he's made fatal mistakes, not yet, anyway.
(Subject to the gleam in Dumbledore's eyes at the end of GoF.)
He's still there, and due to get much stronger. He seems to consider that
he has only one real opponent - Dumbledore. And it's true (or so we are
told)  that these are the two most powerful wizards.

Harry is nowhere near the standard of either, but he's lucky, lucky, lucky.
He's shown no sign of defeating Voldy and only manages to escape him
by the intervention of outside agents (Mirror, Fawkes, wands, DD). None
of these could have been foreseen by Voldemort. He's an umitigated
pest, so far as Voldy is concerned. This may be a good  thing; if he's 
concentrating on Harry, maybe someone else can bring the hammer down
when he's not looking.

Geoff, are you considering that Harry might be Voldy MkII? Or be tempted
in that direction? That'd throw him all right. Be a neat plot twist, too.

But just what usable chinks are there in Voldy's armour? I really can't see
any.

But  I'm open to advisement.

Kneasy