With enemies like these.....

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 116342


Kneasy:"There's been a recent thread on the shocking state of villainy
in the   WW. There've been complaints about this before (my own 109355
among   them).    They  really are a cack-handed bunch of
incompetents.  Haven't they studied the training modulle?  Or read the
textbooks?  There's more to it than having a wand and an attitude, you
know."

Absolutely. Voldemort's megalomania certainly leads him to some wacko
blunders, no? (My dad told me an Air Force expression once, "there's
more to being a pilot than having a big watch." Happens in all walks
of life.)

There's the concept in abnormal psychology of the "successful"
sociopath, a sociopath who isn't an out-and-out lunatic. Think Stalin
here, and then think Lucius.  For the opposite, you have Hitler,
famous for his many strategic and tactical blunders. His parallel
seems clearly to be Voldemort himself.

The Prophecy thing was V's biggest blunder.  His strategy of remaining
concealed, keeping the wizard world asleep, and undermining Harry and
Dumbledore was working.  His agent of influence, Lucius, certainly
encouraged Fudge and the idiots around him.  The wizard world didn't
support Harry, and maybe not Dumbledore, either.  Voldemort shouldn't
have abandoned that strategy.  Instead, he risked exposing the reality
of the Death Eaters to the wizard world and in the end outed himself,
lost himself a bunch of DE's, and vindicated his two main enemies.
Nice going, Lordy.

What I wonder is, how long will Lucius put up with this?  It's got to
occur to him he could do a better job as villain than that slit-eyed
nut job whose robe he has to kiss.  He was content to bide his time
before, being comfortably monied up and all, but now his "leader" has
landed him in the can. This isn't what I signed up for, Lucius moans.

I fear Lucius.  He's smarter, colder, and crueler.  He's sanely evil,
a successful psychopath.  He would have offed Harry the minute he got
the blood he needed in GoF. He'll know how to hurt Harry, and he will
if he can.  I'd like him to stay locked up, but he won't.

Jim Ferer