Voldy's weaknesses as a villain WAS:Re: Why does Snape wants DADA job if it cursed? LONG

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 149011

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> 
wrote:
 
> 5) We manage to get a direct route into Hogwarts, so do we come 
ourself 
> to deal with our most hated enemy.  No.  We send the same group who 
> couldn't handle a half-dozen adolescents into a castle packed with 
> adolescents.

Hickengruendler:

I actually think that makes sense. Voldemort is afraid of Dumbledore, 
therefore he would not deliberatly go anywhere near him. That's why 
he sends his Death Eaters to do the job. He doesn't care for them and 
he does not see them as anything more than his servants. *They* can 
go and face "The only one he ever feared", (and if they should have 
failed again, likely would have gotten their punishment) but 
Voldemort himself stays in his lair not to risk anything. 
 
> 
> 7b) A corollary to the above.  As has been pointed out further up 
the 
> thread, why does he call attention to himself by using such 
NOTICEABLE 
> objects for his horcruxes.  Does it have to do with the horcrux 
> creating magic?  That would be plausible -- i.e. only exceptional 
> objects have the correct arcane qualities to serve as a horcrux.  
But 
> no, its just because he WANTS to.  Chalk another one up as great 
and 
> revealing motivation, :-)).

Hickengruendler:

I am not surprised about this. It might not be the most sensible 
thing to do, but I do find it in character for the old egomaniac. And 
I do think that real life villains would have done this as well. The 
part I am wondering about is why he doesn't make thousands of 
Horcruxes hiding them all over the world. It was explained within the 
text, that he thought 7 to be the most powerful number, but I have 
never seen him as superstious before, therefore this didn't make too 
much sense for me.
 
> 
> Lupinlore, who acknowledges that #7 occurs in real life, and thus 
> points out that even in real life (Hitler, Stalin, the Kaiser) 
villains 
> often don't make very much sense at all
>

Hickengruendler, who pities poor old Wilhelm, because even though the 
Kaiser was a blustering idiot and mainly responsible for the First 
World War, I do not think he deserves to be thrown in the same pot 
with Hitler and Stalin