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

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 149018

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
wrote:
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> And I do think that real life villains would have done this as 
> well. 

Lupinlore:
Oh, I agree.  The point I was trying to make (perhaps badly) was that 
villains often don't make any sense in either life or literature.

Hickengruendler:
> 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:
I suppose his insistance on significant objects can be seen as a kind 
of superstition.  But I know what you mean.  If we are going with 
mystical numbers, wouldn't 13 horcruxes be safer?  For that matter, 
what counts as an object?  Do natural features?  How about making a 
horcrux out of the River Thames? Or the North Sea?  Or a mystical 
mountain in Wales?  Not only significant, but well-nigh 
indestructible.


> 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

Lupinlore, who agrees Wilhelm is in some ways to be pitied, although 
he did precipitate the deaths of at least 12 million people, even if 
you don't give him any responsibility for the indirect deaths from 
WWI. But in deference to your point, would you take Pol Pot?