[HPforGrownups] children of DE's

[artsylynda at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 60234

Brief Chronicles writes:

> I think it could be possible that the Death Eaters having children all 
> around the same time could have lessened Voldemort's power little by little. 
> Perhaps that's part of the reason Voldemort himself needed to go for the Potters. 
> He could have sent a Death Eater to do his dirty work, but maybe they were 
> all busy with their children, who were all about a year old at the time. 
> 
erm. . .have you studied much about the staffs of dictators, such as Hitler, 
for instance?  Family concerns didn't get in the way of them doing what Hitler 
wanted.  And even today, here in the good ol' USA, when a person has to go on 
a business trip, he goes, or he may lose his job.  If a DE put his kids first 
(I sincerely doubt any of them were what we'd consider "good parents" -- no 
"Ozzie and Harriet's" in that bunch!), he'd be dead, as would his entire 
family, I suspect.  Voldemort would make an example of him.  That's how dictators 
stay in power, by meeting disobedience, or even reluctance to follow orders, 
with violent -- and usually terminal -- consequences.  Study some history, there 
have been lots of "Voldemort" type characters in the past.  Hitler's just one 
example.  Pick a Caesar, most any Caesar will do.  If you mess with Caesar, he 
may crucify you.  Or he may send you to the front lines in battle.  Or he may 
throw you in a lion's den.  "My kids have Little League tonight, Great 
Caesar, so I can't throw those Christians to the lions tonight.  I'll do it 
tomorrow."  Yeah, and guess what the consequences of that disobedience would be?  
Caesar:  "I think you'd make a nice hors d'oevres for the lions tonight.  Go right 
down to the Colusseum and get aquainted with my kitties."  LOL!  Evil leaders 
aren't nice to their followers and if the children get in the way, the 
children, and often that follower as well, are forcibly removed.  History has shown 
this to be true over and over.

As for why Voldie went to the Potters himself -- he had a personal grudge 
against them, or some other personal reason that HE had to be the one to go 
there.  He wanted to kill HARRY, a baby.  He didn't want someone else to do it.  If 
he wanted someone else to kill Harry, Wormtail could've slit Harry's throat 
rather than just poking his arm with a knife (in GoF) -- there was no reason 
for Wormtail to be as "gentle" with Harry as he was, except that life debt he 
owes Harry.  Voldemort wants to kill Harry himself, it's an ego thing, or maybe 
he honestly needs Harry's life force for him to become what he wants -- 
completely immortal.  But how would he know that Harry could provide that kind of 
power to him?  Especially when Harry was just a toddler when V. first went after 
him?   I am very interested in finding out the answer to that, and to why 
Dumbledore seems to be prepping, even pushing Harry into confrontations with 
Voldemort.  If Dumbledore is as great a wizard as Voldemort, why not just deal 
with V. and have done with it?  Why make a kid do it?  That's what I'd like to 
know.  D. sending Harry off to do this job, over and over again, with fairly 
full knowledge of what the boy will face (he does seem to know what Harry's faced 
or will face a lot of times) makes D. seem more evil than good in some ways.  
Even if Harry were somehow "magicked into being" (rather than being a normal 
child) in order to be the "savior" of the wizarding world, if D. is equal in 
power to V., why doesn't he just deal with him and stop messing around?  Of 
course, if he did, we would be very frustrated because there wouldn't be any 
Harry Potter books. . . .

Lynda 
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"Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA


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