Voldie was not shocked ( was: some questions...)

[Melody <Malady579@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50119

suzie_t666 writes:
> >1. Why oh why did Crouch Jr.-as-Moody teach Harry to resist the
> >Imperius Charm in the 4th year DADA lessons?

> Melody (me):
> After all, Voldie was not shocked in the graveyard
> when Harry resisted his imperius.  Oh the Deadeaters were but not
> Voldie.  He seems more amused by it.


Cathy wrote:
>from GoF (First American edition, hardback)
>"You won't?" said Voldemort quietly, and the Death Eaters were not
>laughing now.  "You won't say no?  Harry, obedience is a virtue I
>need to teach you before you die...Perhaps another little dose of >pain?"

> To me, this does not imply that he was amused, but rather startled
>by his response.  In other parts, it was stated that Voldemort
>"laughed softly" or his "lipless mouth was smiling". I think
>Voldemort was just as surprised as the rest of the Death Eaters that
>Harry was able to resist him.


Startled?  You read Voldemort's reaction that a fourteen-year-old boy
broke his powerful magic curse imperius as started?  If I was a
extremely powerful dark wizard that everyone ran from and feared and a
small fourteen-year-old boy was able to resist my curse, the same boy
who at the age of *one* ripped me from my body, if I was him, I would
be beyond outrage.  I would *definitely* not be able to control my
voice to say *quietly* "You won't?"

Come now, Voldemort was reaching a fever pitch before he struck Harry
with the imperius.  He was demanding Harry to answer him.  He said GoF
Ch34), "Answer me!  Imperio!"  With "imperio" in italics.  Voldemort
was getting excited.  He was building up annoyance, and then he just
dropped it?  Like that?  Would he not also react *more* annoyed Harry
would resist his imperius?  Yet, he didn't.  He did calm down and
become restrained enough to work out what to do next.

Seems to me, and yes my opinion is bias to MAGICAL DISHWASHER,
Voldemort knew what was going on and knew his lines of the event.  Are
you even saying Barty Jr., Mr. Faithful Servant to Big Daddy Voldie,
did not owl EvilBabyVoldemort with this fascinating news that Harry
can resist the imperius?  Seems Voldie wanted to see if the brat could
resist Crucio too.  I bet he loved that Harry felt that pain.  The
brat has amazing resistance to so much already whether it is innate or
charmed on him.

So, while this is a thread on our interpretation of the text and I
respect your view, frankly Voldie was too controlled then for me to
believe he did not expect Harry to throw that curse off.  The
deadeaters did not and it shows by their silence.  They were shocked
little teenager Harry Potter can resist such a strong imperius curse.
 They were dumbfounded, but not Voldemort.  He never lost a step.
That takes a lot of control or rather pre-knowledge.  He kept to his
plan and kept to what he wanted to do in the first place.  Voldemort
is not stupid nor is he that careless now.

The only thing he forgot was the extremely rare, probability
impossible, chance that his and Harry's wands, *if* they both cast a
spell at the same time, cause priori incantatem.  It is at that point
we see Voldemort loose control and freak out.  He is looks (GoF Ch 34)
"fearful" and "astonished".  He also "shrieks".  It is then that
Voldemort is started but not before.  He is too controlled to be truly
started.


Melody