Being a DE (Was:Re: Peter and Gollum)
pippin_999
foxmoth at qnet.com
Sat Oct 11 20:51:49 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 82736
> susanbones2003 (Jennifer) wrote:
>
> > 1) What the heck is the draw of serving Lord Voldemort? He's
a horrible leader, and as you say pay and benefits are lousy. One
way or the other, most of his followers end up on the wrong end
of things or dead. What's his attraction?
>
Why do people gamble when they know the odds are with the
House? For the thrill of it, because they're compulsive, because
there are rewards they can't get any other way.
Voldemort holds out the lure of the forbidden Dark Arts. He
easily draws followers from the pool of addictive personalities in
power *hungry* Slytherin House. He tempts his followers with
things they can't get otherwise: eternal life for the purebloods
whose lines will die out if they don't marry Muggles, acceptance
for the exiled Giants and the disenfranchised Goblins, revenge
for the embittered, power to those whose naked desire for it has
disqualified them, stability for those who are upset by the
upheavals in wizarding society caused by the inflow of
Muggleborns.
The slot machine rewards the player with small change and an
occasional jackpot, meanwhile collecting more than it gives out.
Voldemort does the same.
Pippin
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