The only one he ever feared? -- 1 more thing

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No: HPFGUIDX 117276


Back to why VD does not fear Harry but does fear DD.

Again I think when VD tried to kill Baby Harry, he had not heard the 
whole prophecy and thought how hard is it to kill a baby.  

In POS I think VD assumes that w/ the Elixir of life he will be 
immortal and assumes that 11 yr old Harry would not know how to kill 
and again because he is lead by his ego he make the same mistake of 
underestimating Harry. Or overestimating his own knowledge.

In GOF, VD uses Harry's blood to get his body back and assumes now 
he can kill him again, and the protection is lifted.  So again it 
seems that it would be better to kill Harry now when Harry knows so 
little and all the better in front of the Death Eaters to show his 
strength and supremacy.

In OPP, I think VD is still in the same place.   He fails to realize 
that he has marked this other non-pure blood as an equal and keeps 
thinking (and rightfully so) that is knows more than Harry and has 
better command of his powers than Harry.  (Maybe at this point he is 
more powerful, hard to know what un-tapped potential lies in Harry.) 

In terms of Fearing DD, I think one of the reasons VD is in Slytherin 
because he looks out for himself.   And so when he was in power he 
went after those he knew he could beat or control to build a power 
base.   I think he was eventually going to go after DD but never head 
on.  Why do that when you can set traps and or gang up on someone.   
I think VD feared DD because he knew DD had brains as well as 
powerful magic and he was the one person who'd be hard to trap and 
who he might not beat 1:1.    

Kristen