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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