The Evil of Voldemort; Lily's choice

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 146656

Karen wrote:
> I thought they were good, entertaining, but book 4,
> specifically the moment LV said "Kill the Spare" and Cedric was dead
> with no mamby pamby dying speeches or chases or anything else, I sat
> up and went "whoa" this chick is not messing around. 

Bart:
It does establish Voldy as being thoroughly evil. A probable mistake in 
STAR WARS (aka STAR WARS IV) was to make the most overtly evil character 
Governor Tarkin instead of Darth Vader (for example, after Leia gives 
the information he has asked for, he destroys Alderaan anyway); Vader, 
in his actions, was more of a pragmatist; the reason why we consider him 
to be the major agent of evil is because we are told that he is.

JKR, doesn't tell; she shows. Voldemort kills not only when there is 
something to be gained, but when there is nothing to be lost. Which, of 
course, brings up the question again; why did he give Lily the choice of 
living? Given Voldemort as one who gains pleasure in the suffering of 
others, the obvious theory was that his intent was to get Lily to give 
up Harry to save her own life (which, it appears, Voldy fully expected 
her to do), and THEN kill her anyway. Of course, there may be an 
ulterior motive, to be revealed in Book 7.

	Bart