LV showing mercy to Lily?

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bboy:
>big snip<
> One last thought, do you think an arrogant nut case like Voldemort has
> even given a seconds thought to what it takes to rule a county?
> ...even one thought to the day to day administration necessary to keep
> a country running functionally. I don't think so. 
> 
> Like all evil arrogant dictators and would be kings, Voldemort see
> himself standing on a balcony looking out over a wizard world that is
> bowing at this feet. Since these evil overlord idiots are so engulfed
> in their own grandeur and irrational thinking, the are able to conqure
> worlds, but they are hopelessly incapable of ruling them. Consequently
> the world gradually slide deeper and deeper into chaos and disfunction.
> 
> Remember, Tyranny is the architect of it's own doom, and you heard it
> here first.
> 
> bboy_mn

Actually, I believe I read something like it in Machiavelli. The scary thing is when 
megalomaniacs like Lord Thingy actually manage to attract followers with organizational 
skills (a la Hitler) or have someone they think of as a lackey who actually has the brains 
and knowledge to wield power without the narcissistic need to be acknowledged on the 
one hand or empathy or sense of justice on the other.

I think LV's main weakness--aside from his fear of death, as emphasized by DD--is his 
utter contempt for what Dumbledore calls "we fools who love." Sacrifices like Lily's are 
simply unthinkable to him. Based only on JKR's sense of symmetry, I think we can expect a 
similar sacrifice to lead to Voldy's ultimate destruction. Whether that sacrifice is made by 
one of the Trio, or by someone else (one of the 'new trio'--Ginny, Neville, Luna--or a 
teacher, or one or more of the Weasleys, or someone heretofore unsuspected), remains to 
be revealed by the lady herself....

Antosha