Voldemort's Intentions was Re: Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort?

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> Alla:
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> Of course he was not under compulsion to kill every Muggle and Muggleborn who crossed his path. But him having use for Lily is actually news for me. What use did he have for her??? You mean giving her to Snape for his pleasures?

Pippin:
According to Hagrid and JKR's interviews, Voldemort wanted James and Lily on his side. Why, I don't know, but while Diary!Riddle might have thought her no better than a common Muggle, Lord Voldemort would know Lily as a powerful, popular and well-connected witch. It might show his power to kill her, since she persisted in defying him, but would it not show it even more to let her live, powerless to stop him from murdering her husband and child?

  And while Snape was  not the highest-ranking DE at that time, he was the one who eluded Dumbledore's clutches and brought home the precious prophecy, and he then undertook the highly dangerous and difficult task of spying on Dumbledore from within Hogwarts itself. That would be  worth at least the promise of a reward, and maybe the reward itself if it did not prove too troublesome. I suspect Snape was clever enough to tell Voldemort that he would name his reward for delivering the prophecy when he saw his time, and so had some credit stored up with his master when he needed it. 

I don't think Voldemort ever offered to wrap LIly up with a ribbon and drop her on Snape's bed like an early Christmas present. AFAWK, all he agreed to do was to spare her life. Anyway Snape has become in the eyes of the WW  a respectable Hogwarts teacher, he's no longer under any suspicion of Death Eater sympathies, and if he can get himself back in the grieving widow's good graces, he might be able to penetrate the Order itself. 

Alla:
 This is a creature who had deluded himself that he is deserving to rule over wizard kind that muggle borns are lesser beings, etc, etc, etc, why would I take anything he is thinking or saying as truth? It MAY be a truth, sure, I doubt that he meant to say lies all the time, but I think I have every reason to be skeptical about any of his thoughts.

Pippin:
Because Voldemort prizes the truth, most of the time. Like the other characters he deludes himself only when the truth is too difficult to face. But why would he need to delude himself about planning to break his promise and kill Lily? He didn't have any qualms about either.

Pippin