Hogwarts Attacked! ( was: Cabinet First)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 157978

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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> > 
> > > Pippin continues:
> > >
> > > Slughorn had told him that Dumbledore doesn't want 
> > > anyone to know about horcruxes. I don't think 
> > > Voldemort would believe that Dumbledore *hadn't* 
> > > constructed a  horcrux. ...
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > Pippin
> > >
> > 
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > I don't honestly think any one in the books would ever
> > conceive that Dumbledore would create his own Horcrux.
> > He is far to noble, and Horcruxes are far to Dark and
> > immoral for Dumbledore to even consider. 

> 
> Pippin:
> I agree with you. But Voldemort doesn't think that way,
> IMO. Canon devotes an awful lot of space to convincing 
> us that Voldemort just doesn't get nobility. ...
> 
> Pippin
>


bboyminn:

I'm not saying you are wrong, just that I don't agree with
you.

I think Voldemort does understand Nobility, I think he 
understands Dumbledore's Nobility, and he thinks it is 
a weakness. In his mind, he can't fathom why anyone would
have access to power and not take it and use it. 

I think he knows that Dumbledore is too noble to create a
Horcrux and he sees that as a gross flaw in Dumbldore's 
logic. He sees it as a way in which Dumbledore will defeat
himself by making himself weak and vulnerable when he had 
it in his power to make himself invincible. 

But Voldemort thinks that way because he fears death and 
can't imagine that anyone else would not also fear death. 
Dumbledore on the other hand know that death is not the
end but is a new beginning. 

So, in this sense, Voldemort does not understand nobility.
He doesn't understand it in the sense that he sees no logic
in it, and he sees those who stand on it as a matter of
principle as weak and vulnerable people that will be easy
to defeat. 

I suspect it is this false logic that will help do Voldemort
in at the end.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn