Voldy's Blunder (was: "Power the Dark Lord Knows Not" -- Attachment)

[docmara1]

No: HPFGUIDX 137811

> Jason:
> I agree with you Jen. I'd go further to say that Voldemort also 
made 
> the mistake of taking "the flesh of a servant freely given" from a 
man 
> that owes his life to Harry Potter. I wonder whether this too will 
play 
> a part in Voldemort's down fall..."Wormtail, did you neglect to 
tell me 
> that you owe your worthless, pathetic life to Harry Potter? 
> Crucio!"...dunno, does that bond transfer with the flesh? We shall 
see 
> in book 7 I guess....
> 


So interesting, really, that VM derives his power (flawed though 
it's probably going to turn out to be) through force and 
coersion.  "Bone of the father" taken from the grave of the man he 
killed in cold blood; "Flesh of the servant freely given" except 
what exactly would happen to Wormtail if he refused? Harry gets his 
power through the really freely given support and help he gets from 
his friends.  

I really love the idea of there being magical expression of those 
relationships -- the debt from Wormtail being a possibility I hadn't 
considered.(that debt existing because Harry was merciful -- not 
blindly bent on revenge but instead saw Wormtail as a person who 
would be 'murdered' and didn't want his father's friends to be 
murderers -- think of all the subtleties there! :)) 

Mara (who's getting a little more used to posting on HPfGU but 
realizes that she doesn't have anything really interesting to add 
most of the time)