Lucius & Voldie'sWorld (was: Longbottoms)

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49661

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Torsten <sevothtarte at g...> wrote:
> bboy_mn:
> > The world a field of  ashes, which would make Voldemort King
> > of Ashes.
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> Torsten replied
> 
> I can't remember a canon statement saying LV wants to destroy the 
> world. 
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bboy_mn responds:

The 'field of ashes' was a bit of dramatic license; a bit of
figurative melodrama to make a point. No Voldemort's goal isn't to
reduce the world to ashes, but look at his methods; pointless murder,
and torture, killing for sport and entertainment, the quest for
imortality. Do you really believe Voldemort is not going to leave a
huge wake of senseless distruction in his path? Voldemort is a
megalomaniac, he has a God complex, he wants to be Lord and Master of
the Universe (OK, nore dramatic license, not the universe, but a
substantial portion of the world) and that makes him nuttier than a
fruitcake, barmy as a brew house, barking... howling... mad.

The truth is a wizard as intelligent, as self-serving, as cunning, and
as powerful as Voldemort is, could very easily become ruler (Minister)
of the wizard world by legitimate means. He could probably be Minister
of Magic right now (in the books), if he wasn't so hopelessly
irrational and deluded. After Minster of Magic, as ambitions as he is,
he could run one of the big international organizations like the
Confederation of Wizards. If he wasn't such a nut, he could easily be
the most power man in the wizard world right now. 
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> Torsten continues:
> Also, look at how he treats the DEs - he's kind of nice to them. 
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bboy_mn wonders:
Sarcasm??? Oh sure, he treats them nice. I'll give you wealth and
power, all you have to so is spend the rest of your life groveling on
the floor kissing my scaly bu... robe.. hem of my robe, let me torture
you with an illegal curse, obey me or die, and let me kill you when
I'm finally bored or feeling paranoid. Oh yeah, it a fun life being a
Death Eater.

Your statement HAD to be Sarcasm.
-bboy_mn -end this part-

> Torsten continues to continue:
> Crouch Jr. perceives him as a father figure, which would be 
> impossible if Voldy was only cruel. He's not looking for a world 
> of ashes, but for HIS world.
> 
> Torsten

bboy_mn still wonders:
Sarcasm again? Crouch Jr. is just as deranges as Voldie, maybe even
more derange. It's one thing to be nuts, but it's something else
altogether to be nuts enough to believe and follow another hopeless nut.

Voldie is not LOOKING for a world of ashes, but that's what he's going
to get. Because he sees only an event, an isolated slice of time in
which he stands up high and the world bows at his feet, but he fails
to he what it will take to get him there, and he fail to see what
state the world will be in once he gets there, and he fail to see how
difficult it is to rule a world in chaos, a world with a collasped
economy, a destroyed infrastructure, a world in social upheaval. If he
was sane, he would just get elected, and think of ways to make the
world a richer place.

What on earth made Germany or Japan think they could take over the
world? It was because the had deluded themselves into believing that
they were super-human and that the rest of the world was sub-human.
They deluded themselves into believing that they owned the world by
right of superior beings (short version- god complex).

In closing - Evil is the Architect of It's Own Doom.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

bboy_mn