[HBP] Why didn't Voldemort Modify Hagrid's Memory?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 190189



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <geoffbannister123 at ...> wrote:

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> Geoff:
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> My own personal interpretation of this is that Riddle didn't 
> modify Hagrid's memory because he just didn't want to and he 
> could get much more satisfaction and sense of power by leaving
> him as a misused and helpless victim.
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> Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" 
> Euripides
>

Steve:

While still hold that I was right as far as I took it, I think
you have hit on a very important detail. It is not enough that
Riddle has power and sway over others, he has to humiliate 
them too. We see this countless times through out the series.

He couldn't just kill Harry and move on, NO, he had to prove a
point, he had to humiliate him. And even when, near the end, he
thought he had killed Harry, he still had to gloat, he still 
had to humiliate Harry. 

It is a small man, and a poor Evil Overlord, who can only raise
himself up by pushing others down. 

Apparently, Voldemort has never read the Evil Overlord's Handbook -

http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

"6.) I will not gloat over my enemies' predicament before killing them."

Steve/bluewizard