Re: An Exercise in Sugarcoating Voldy’s Blunderings

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 126979


> John wrote:
><snip>
> We're most of us pretty scornful of Voldy's efforts so far. Four 
> times, now, he's allowed a teenage boy to escape his slippery 
coils 
> and, basically, lost all credibility where it comes to this evil 
> overlord caper. 
> 
> So can one put forth a defense of him, capable of standing up to 
the 
> rigorous scrutiny of the HPFGU council of elders (and anyone else 
> whose interested)?
><snip>

Hannah:  Well done on a great post!  It's nice to see there are ways 
of making LV's 'CartoonOverlord' blunders seem a bit more 
believable.  I think his main problem is constant underestimation of 
Harry.  The first time, at Godric's Hollow, he can be forgiven.  He 
went in, blasted his way through, and (assuming it was an AK he used 
on Harry) got caught out when an unblockable, irreversible spell 
rebounded on him.

I think his worst error is really the graveyard.  In the other two 
incidences he was let down by the incompetence of his followers and 
managed to escape even though he was outnumbered.  So I suppose one 
major directly attributable cockup in about twenty six years of 
tyranny is perhaps excusable.

Hannah