What makes Voldy run?

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No: HPFGUIDX 131168

>From an iceberg floating somewhere outside Theory Bay, a penguin speaks:

I've been rereading OotP in preparation for HBP revelation, and a question is
nagging still: WHY is Voldy doing all this? What's his motivation (and by
extension, the DE's)? Ok, so we know he has a hankering for eternity, and
desires to prove that he's Top Wizard. We know he has a problem with his
upbringing and practically reinvented himself. 

WHY? The story given thus far doesn't add up to a satisfactory reason why he
should need immortality so badly. What made Voldy fear death so? DD has been
giving us little hints all the way through about his preferred attitude
towards death ("there are worse things", "to the organized mind, death is but
the next greatest adventure"), and perhaps we can feel something of Voldy's
attitude in Harry, who has been undecided up to this point. Is it narcissism?
Egomania? Why polarize the WW, gathering a bunch of hangers-on, and presumably
threaten the Muggle world? Apart from hating Muggles, do Muggles have anything
to do with his plans? Another big hint from DD: Voldy is afraid of love. I'm
sure plenty of people are, but they don't go around claiming they cannot die
as a result. If I have a hope for HBP, it's that we get get further away from
the cartoon villian Voldemort to the more uncomfortably real Tom Riddle.

One intriguing note is DD's calling Voldy Tom at the MoM, out of familiar
contempt perhaps? If the WW can't call him Voldemort, don't they know his real
name?
 
Hmmm....back to fishing then.

* splash *

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