Voldemort's strategy in Year Six - his Hit List

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 123331


Eustace_Scrubb opined: 
>>I still wonder whether the Hogwarts Express and/or Platform 9 3/4
>>might be vulnerable to an attack.

Jim Ferer:
> This would be a place for a general attack on the students, if
> Voldemort decided that terrorizing the wizard citizenry was the way 
> to go. It would be anothere mistake, IMO. 

Eustace_Scrubb:
I agree that it would likely be a strategic mistake.  But it seems
like a mistake Voldemort would be all too likely to make.  He seems to
have trouble learning from his mistakes.  Despite the evidence that
Harry is the biggest threat to him, Voldemort continues to fear
Dumbledore more than he does Harry.  

Not that it's a bad idea to fear Dumbledore...after all, despite the
DEs disastrous miscalculation of the students' ability to resist them,
their mission was close to succeeding until the Order members arrived.
 And at the very least the DEs would probably have gotten away--and no
one would have seen Voldemort--had Dumbledore not arrived.  (A pretty
result that would have been:  the Department of Mysteries ransacked by
Harry Potter, some misguided fellow students, a werewolf, a
discredited ex-Auror...all with ties to Dumbledore.  And some
cockamamey story about Death Eaters luring them there.  Tonks and
Shacklebolt would have had to act as if they were apprehending their
Order friends or risk being outed as DD supporters.  Can you say
A-Z-K-A-B-A-N, boys and girls?  I knew you could.)

Jim Ferer:
> Here's another fear: a move against Hermione or the Weasleys during
> the summer holidays, when they're away from school altogether.  All
> you'd need is to get Hermione in Bellatrix's clutches and you'd
> drive Harry out of his mind.

Eustace_Scrubb:
Agreed, and wasn't this in part why Ron and Hermione spent most of
last summer at Grimmauld Place rather than at their homes.  I can't
imagine that Dumbledore would willingly leave them more exposed during
the summer before 6th year.  Not that their defenses are necessarily
invulnerable, of course.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb