This blog of mine will surely fill my inbox with hate mails but still continue to write it, like how Lord Voldemort continued his quest for power despite the wrath earned from the wizarding lot. Harry potter occupies the highest place in the long list of my personal favorite books; it has the power to converge the world of fantasy and the reality, which only Harry potter fans can sense while the others laugh at us concluding it as mere nonsense. Each character in that book comes alive as you read along, causing your emotions to follow theirs, you smile when they are elated and cry when they are depressed. Each one of us are influenced and moved by different characters for our own reasons and so was I. Who is that character? Well I have to tell, since he is the main reason why I am writing this….. He is Lord Voldemort…. Surprised? Feeling like slapping me? … Well don’t be yet… until you hear my reasons for this.
Harry Potter was indeed the hero of the story and Voldemort the villain, still I would say that Voldemort was one of the best wizards, the only one who could match Albus Dumbledore. The only difference being he hated love while the others loved it which made him the bad man. There was a time, before Voldemort was reduced to a trivial soul, when he was the czar of the wizarding world, he was feared by all while he feared none, and all followed him while he followed none. He single handedly ran a huge army and ruled all, whereas his opponents were searching for aid and were forming allies to defeat him but all in vain. They had to finally rely upon a baby shielded by this supernatural power of love laid upon him by his half blood mother, by the sacred art of sacrifice…. But the sacrifice to whom? None other than lord Voldemort himself.
After his downfall too, people feared to take his name. They relented to speak out about his deeds, wanted to wipe out the memory of him, wanted to convince themselves that he was destroyed, which, never happened. They were under the constant look out for danger, his presence and each one dreaded his return. How can any ordinary wizard have such an impact on people? Though it was for bad reasons. He was a meticulous planner, a clever executioner of his plans, brilliant student who had the potential to manipulate magic to conquer his passion “the power”. This was what made it difficult for his rivals to guess his game plan and none except for a few could think about the extremities of magic the way he did. After his return at the end of fourth book, it took him only a couple of months to rebuild his army and a few more months to create a chaos in the peaceful wizarding world which had taken the rest many years to build.
In the end Harry Potter came out victorious, he had to, after all the good has to win and the evil had to loose but at what cost? He had to loose his parents, Cedric, Moody, Dumbledore, and Snape. He needed Hermione’s intelligence to crack the mysteries, escape dangers, Dumbledore’s wisdom, talent and experience to see him through, a lot of people to safeguard him and finish off some of the tasks for him, above all luck which favored him time and again. One may argue that Voldemort too had his own supporters but all his supporters were his mere followers, a dumb mechanized lot who did nothing but just blindly follow his words. He was one mind but worked with several bodies, intelligence, talent, experience etc was all his none contributed by others. In the end too it was a mishap with the wand that saved Harry’s soul from Voldemort which otherwise was impossible. I say it was the circumstances that defeated Lord Voldemort not the so called vouch for Love gang.
