Voldemort's evil plan

[katssirius]

No: HPFGUIDX 149486

I am not clear what Voldemort and his Death Eater's want.  Any level of 
power or money Tom Riddle desired he could have gotten as Tom Riddle.  
Lucius Malfoy obviously has both as well.  So what do these guys want.  
Is it just unlimited torture?  These are smart people.  If you kill all 
of the mudbloods then there are not enough wizards to maintain a gene 
pool and no one to torture.  So what is the point.  Maybe I do not have 
a dark enough side to get it.  But it seems to me that they could 
torture people and be powerful without all this fuss.  No one would 
notice.  The wizarding world certainly has the flaw of very little 
introspection and a great deal of license for all kinds of behavior.  
Frankly they could torture Muggles with very few people noticing.  
After all muggles get away with it all of the time.

Obviously I'm a fan.  But for me this is a weakness in the series.  I 
do not understand what Voldemort wants that Tom Riddle could not have 
had.  Dismissing him as psychotic as the entire explanation is weak for 
a series with this many pages.

Katssirius,
 typing while her kids sleep in on Sunday morning to keep the 
groans and predictions of losing all touch with reality to a minimum