Quote from GOF

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 56842

jeanico at securenet.net writes:
> "You stand, Harry Potter, upon the remains of my late father", he 
> hissed softly, "A muggle and a fool...very like your dear mother..."
> I was just reading GOF again to refresh my memory and get ready to 
> move on to OOTP and came across this sentence that Voldemort speaks 
> to Harry in the graveyard. Why does he compare Lily to his father? 
> was Lily a muggle? I thought Harry's parents were a wizard and a 
> witch. Any thoughts on this? Maybe I am just not understanding the 
> quote properly.


Me:

Either, as someone stated, Voldemort equates Muggles and Muggle-borns (in his 
mind there is no difference), OR Voldemort was just comparing them as both 
fools, as in "...my late father.  A Muggle" (Pause.  Different thought) "and 
a fool...very like your dear mother."  The comparison between the elder Tom 
Riddle and Lily Potter is still strange.  Is he calling his father a fool for 
abandoning his child, and at the same time calling Lily a fool for staying 
and protecting her child?

Or are they "fools" in Voldemort's eyes for another reason?  I've always 
thought that Voldemort's true desire is to gain power and immortality for 
himself, and he is only using the whole Muggle-born/Pureblood prejudice as a 
front.  Maybe Voldemort does buy into the whole "Pureblood" Wizards thing 
more than I thought, and to Voldemort, his father and Lily Potter are both 
for the same reason, which is procreating with a Pureblood Witch and Wizard 
and producing Halfbloods like himself and Harry.

-Audra-


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