HBP's back cover, and what Voldemort was trying to achieve

[davenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 132277

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tonihollifield" 
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> It looks to me to be Ron, Hermoine, Ginny, and possible Cho 
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> Ron) looking up at the Dark Mark over Hogwarts!
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> Any thought??  (dumb question -- I know! :-))
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I agree, but I just realized how the movies have made me imagine Ron 
to look like the actor Rupert, so at first I thought it looked more 
like Harry without glasses... but it's probably Ron.

In GoF it says that the DEs conjured the Dark Mark when they killed 
someone... so they are going to kill someone AT Hogwarts?  Could it 
be?  Hmmm... not Dumbledore!!  (I personally think that Dumbledore 
will die, but not till book 7.  We will see though.)

Do we know what Voldemort's ultimate objective was?  What was he 
hoping to accomplish by gathering supporters and killing those who 
wanted to stop him?  If power... to do what?  Over what?  Death?  
Why did he need followers to defeat death?  It seems like he was 
able to make himself immortal with his own experiment.  So was he 
really just trying to be the ruler of evil pure-blood wizards 
because he hated Muggles and half-bloods?

I wonder how much of that will come out in the next two books.  
Though we have some ideas (he hated Muggles, wanted power and 
immortality) I'm not sure if we have a true understanding of his 
ultimate goals.

- davenclaw