What DD wanted for LV? WAS:Re: Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

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Carol wrote:
"Still, I think we can take the statement ("Merely taking your life
would not satisfy me, I admit") as true even though it's not the real
reason (or the primary reason among many) why he doesn't attempt to
kill Voldemort then or at any other time. That being the case, what
can he mean by it? What *would* satisfy Dumbledore (if he were alive
to see it)? Would merely having *Harry* take LV's life be somehow 
more satisfactory? Surely he's not expecting LV to beg for mercy or
repentance? Or maybe it's not a half-truth at all but an out-and-out
lie to cover up his knowledge of the Horcruxes? I can't imagine DD
*wanting* to take someones life, not even Riddle/Voldemort's. What,
then, does he mean? Ideas, anyone?"


CH3ed:
I agree with Carol that there is more to DD's remark to LV at the 
MoM. I also think this is one instance where it helped the good side 
that DD is known to LV as one of those softy fools who love. DD not 
killing LV/Harry (possessed) would be explained away in LV's mind as 
typical of DD the good guys who won't hurt innocent parties.... 
instead of alerting LV to the possibility that DD is on to him 
having Horcruxes.

As to the question of what DD meant when he said,"merely taking your 
life wouldn't satisfy me." I agree with Kchuplis that love has to do 
with it. Maybe he wanted LV to realize before he dies what great 
things he missed by shunning love. But my own guess would be that DD 
would have liked to be able to trade LV's life for the lives of 
those innocents (and OotP members) LV had killed. And DD is bitter 
that he can't.

CH3ed  :O) back again after a long bout with pneumonia.