Voldemort's Fear of Dumbledore

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 107393

Angie wrote:
> I the general consensus is that LV feared DD, but I don't see this 
in 
> his encounter with DD in OOP.  I can't imagine LV admitting any 
type 
> of fear or weakness to anyone, so how do we know LV feared DD? I 
know 
> Hermione stated this and I presume it is common knowledge, but 
again, 
> the question is why. 

Ginger, who admits to having a mental lapse, responds:

I don't remember where Hermione says it, although I have a vague 
memory of her saying it.  I do remember McGonagall telling Dumbledore 
in the first chapter of the first book that "Everyone knows that 
you're the only one You-Know- oh, all right, Voldemort was frightened 
of."

Dumbledore responds by saying that Voldemort has powers he (DD) will 
never have.  McG counters that DD is too noble to use them.

Is it the powers that DD has, but is too noble to use that frighten 
LV?  Perhaps he doubts that DD's nobility will extend past a certain 
point, after which he (LV) is toast.

The scene in which they were together in OoP wasn't a planned meeting 
by LV.  He had only shown up to patch up his underlings' muffle as 
best as possible.  He really had no choice but to fight DD, fear or 
no fear.  

So at least we know *everyone* knows that LV fears DD.  McG said so.  
Of course, that may have been a generalization.  She is usually 
precise, yet she ended the sentance with a preposition, so maybe she 
was flustered.  We'll give her the benefit of the doubt on that one.

Ginger, who would be afraid of DD too, were she an evil overlordish 
type of person.