What does Voldy want?

[squeakinby]

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I'm not very good at understanding the mindsets of these 
hypercontrolling types so I'm missing something here and maybe it can be 
explained to me.

Voldy wants to "control" the entire wizarding world?
Why?  For what end?  Because it'll be fun in a sick, 
I-need-all-the-power kind of way?  Would he then want to extend the 
control to the muggle world or would it just be better if all mudbloods 
were dead?

When it was said that Lily and James were working against him, what do 
we imagine they were doing to stop him?  Why kill Lily and James if all 
he had to do was kill Harry to prevent the prophecy from playing out 
unless they posed an actual threat to him?

Sometimes as I'm reading these books I'm quite struck by how close they 
seem to parallel world events.  "Spooky," as Gilderoy said.

Jem