Voldemort's strategy in Year Six - his Hit List

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 123153


Voldemort's suffered about as bad a defeat as you can and still remain
on the field of battle.  Many or most of his key Death Eaters are
busted (even when Lucius breaks out, as he probably will, his
usefullness as an agent of influence is over), Harry and Dumbledore
are vindicated, and the wizard world knows, once and for all, that
Voldemort's back.  I wouldn't want to be Wormtail locked up in the
hideaway with Lord Voldemort after that experience, let me tell you,
especially if LV had a couple of shots of snake venom in him.

Now what for LV?  What has he learned that he may not have known before?

Harry has friends who are vital to him.
Harry is a leader of some of his main enemies.
Harry will expose himself for his friends' sakes.

Harry, then, is vulnerable to the same tactic as LV tried with Sirius
-- only *this time it'll be real.*

I expect the DE's to lash out at Harry's friends and loved ones.  If
LV can get at one or more of Harry's friends - Ron, Hermione, Ginny,
Neville, Luna, take your pick - it will either force Harry out into
the open (LV's best case scenario) or damage Harry by hurting him and
depriving him of the support of the friend taken (the consolation
prize). The revenge and sadism that goes along with it is just icing
on the cake to LV.

Does LV understand how important Harry is? He doesn't know the
Prophecy, but I bet that by now he's got a sense of Harry's
importance.  The Good Side knows it for sure, and that preserving
Harry Potter is an absolute strategic necessity. That makes protecting
those closest to Harry a necessity too.

Jim Ferer