Harry & Voldemort, wands and similarities/differences

[pandrea100]

No: HPFGUIDX 104329

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana" <dianasdolls at y...> 
wrote:
> The difference between Harry and Voldemort, so far, is what Harry 
> does with his anger. 

True so far, but I think the real big difference between how Harry 
develops and how Tom developed will be Sirius' death.  The guilt and 
lessons from this will change Harry, he will never again act so 
rashly.  Tom never got to learn this lesson.

Well, that's one way I think Book 6 could go - I suppose the other is 
Harry being even MORE angry and alienated.  But I feel that we saw 
this side of him sufficiently in Book 5.

> Another major difference is that Voldemort is terrified of 
> dying and Harry is not.  
> Welcoming death is something Voldemort will NEVER do.  

I think that this is a huge part of Voldemort's character.  I would 
love to know what made him so obsessed with conquering death - I 
mean, his dark magic route could have taken him another way, he could 
have become obsessed with ruling the world or something.  Sure, he 
would have liked to do that too, but it seems that what he's most 
focused on is simply beating death.  Is this because his mother died?

Pandrea