Voldemort's Plan in Book 7 (Evil Overlord for the day )

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 144701

SSSusan:
> What I wonder is:  Is it possible to keep from Voldy the knowledge 
> that his horcruxes are being hunted & destroyed?  Will Voldy not
> have built into one or more of them some kind of special,
> internal, additional magic which would provide him with a warning
> that somebody's messin' with his goods?  I mean, he's an
> overconfident kind of guy, but would he be THAT stupid to not at
> least consider a magical alert mechanism on at least one of the
> horcruxes?

Jen: Dumbledore seemed to be suggesting such a mechanism in the cave 
when he said: "...He would want to keep them alive long enough to 
find out how they managed to penetrate so far through his defences, 
and most importantly of all, why they were so intent upon emptying 
the basin. Do not forget that Lord Voldemort believes that he alone 
knows about his Horcruxes." (The Cave, p. 532, Bloomsbury)

Actually, none of my evil scenarios would happen unless Voldemort 
*did* know his horcruxes were being hunted. I forgot to add that. He 
certainly wouldn't want anyone to know about them otherwise.

Orna:
> If Snape is DDM! – the horcrux hunt is still secret. Since I'm a
> DDM!Snape, I feel that Harry playing hide and seek with Voldemort
> on his horcruxes, isn't a very interesting plot for book 7. 

Jen: There will be plenty of ground to cover, between the horcrux 
hunt and the historical backstory promised by JKR. I don't think 
Voldemort would play a cat and mouse game either, hiding more and 
more horcruxes. But upon learning Harry is hunting the horcruxes, 
which I think Voldemort already knows because of the potion (or will 
find out soon), his modus operandi would be to plan a scheme to 
corner Harry. And as Dumbledore said in the horcrux chapter, no one 
besides Harry is protected from the 'lure of power like 
Voldemort's'. That tells me it may be open season on the people 
Harry loves in order to stop Harry from destroying horcruxes.

I've thought about what Voldemort's power IS, what Harry is 
protected from. And I've decided it's Voldemort's ability to use 
people's weaknesses against them. That's what the DADA curse was, 
and we saw Voldemort use one of Dumbledore's own students in an 
inside game, forcing Dumbledore to pull back and act defensively. 
Ultimately DD chose to save Draco over himself (I'm pretty sure DD 
knew Draco was the one entering the tower and thus the decision to 
lose his wand). Riddle used Ginny's lonliness and crush on Harry to 
lure her in. Something lured Snape in way back when and I suspect it 
was 'wearing his heart on his sleeve.' There are many other 
examples, including Harry, but Harry has never completely been 
overcome like the others because of his particular protections and 
weapons.

Orna:
> I mean, part of the point of the horcruxes is that they symbolize
> Voldemort's torn and split soul. DD says, that perhaps near his
> death moment Voldemort will be able to realize, his horcruxes are
> gone, thereby IMO getting human again, feeling the loss and some
> connectedness with his soul. Voldemort playing around with his
> horcruxes, hiding them, being concerned about what happens to them,
> psychologically-wise looks wrong to me. 

Jen: I'm not sure I understand? Voldemort may not internally feel 
the destruction of his horcruxes, but he has gone to great lengths 
to hide and protect them. They are everything to him, the 
culmination of his life's work such as it is. His obsession. Maybe 
you mean he has too much belief in his own powers of protection and 
therefore doesn't think about the horcruxes after hiding them?

SSSusan:
> I doubt Jo will do that to Harry/to us -- and I suppose in the
> final volume it would be more likely that such knowledge of
> Harry's horsechow hunt would simply cause Voldy to turn & go
> *after* Harry, rather than engage in more evasive measures like 
> creating more hortchops.  

Jen: I see we agree again <g>--Voldemort's first goal if he does 
learn of the horcrux hunt will be to go straight for the jugular. I 
think he's tired of messing around with Harry; getting Dumbledore 
out of the way was the last step to defeating Harry in his mind. If 
he makes another horcrux, it will be to victimize or tempt Harry.

Jen