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bluemagebrilly (12/23/2015) [-] 
Kind of the point of his character, I think. He's a guy who believed in magic. It's probably the only thing he could 'love' given his whole 'born under the effects of a love potion' thing. The idea of not using magic to do a task was almost foreign to him. It's also something he could rely on from his own body.
Gravity could fail to kill something, so could a window. A sword could be too blunt, a gun could misfire, or even a toothpick could snap before being lethal. But his magic was always lethal until he met Harry... That's what I think, at least.
But y'know, he could also just have been an arrogant jerk on cloud 9 after killing two powerful wizards right before that. Doubt he was thinking straight.
Gravity could fail to kill something, so could a window. A sword could be too blunt, a gun could misfire, or even a toothpick could snap before being lethal. But his magic was always lethal until he met Harry... That's what I think, at least.
But y'know, he could also just have been an arrogant jerk on cloud 9 after killing two powerful wizards right before that. Doubt he was thinking straight.
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AnonymousDonor (12/24/2015) [-] be...cause he evaporated?
didnt he?
i mean im no die-hard fan but i was pretty sure the books implied that the moment he cast the curse it backfired and tore his body apart or something, scattering his soul to the other horcruxes (of which Harry became one)
i mean cmon even in the escapist fantasies of JK Rowling, there was enough sense not to include the scene where voldemort stands two feet away screaming in frustration "HOW DO I BABBY"
for ***** sake the dark lord gonna be more clever than that he can still kill a kid with magic cant he??
--wingardium leviosa some heavy **** and have it fall on his head
--brew a death potion and put it in his baby formula
--literally any other ******* thing. baby's aren't renowned for their stalwart constitution
and then this ***** tryna tell me the Dark Lord Voldemort, the wizard embodiment of evilest of evils, tried to kill a ******* babby, ragequit, and went home to nurse a butterbeer with his cronies and bitch about his problems?
and still somehow lost his corporeal form?
just doesnt pan out
didnt he?
i mean im no die-hard fan but i was pretty sure the books implied that the moment he cast the curse it backfired and tore his body apart or something, scattering his soul to the other horcruxes (of which Harry became one)
i mean cmon even in the escapist fantasies of JK Rowling, there was enough sense not to include the scene where voldemort stands two feet away screaming in frustration "HOW DO I BABBY"
for ***** sake the dark lord gonna be more clever than that he can still kill a kid with magic cant he??
--wingardium leviosa some heavy **** and have it fall on his head
--brew a death potion and put it in his baby formula
--literally any other ******* thing. baby's aren't renowned for their stalwart constitution
and then this ***** tryna tell me the Dark Lord Voldemort, the wizard embodiment of evilest of evils, tried to kill a ******* babby, ragequit, and went home to nurse a butterbeer with his cronies and bitch about his problems?
and still somehow lost his corporeal form?
just doesnt pan out
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xoyv (12/24/2015) [-] i think it wasn't so much "i HAVE to kill this baby!" but more "better tie up any loose ends"
kill the mother, kill the father, kill the **********
kill the mother, kill the father, kill the **********
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izaya ONLINE (12/24/2015) [-] Thing with Voldemort is that he doesn't recognize/understand the power of love, which saved Harry.
In his head it was easy, "kill the mother, kill the child, chill with hookers", because he was arrogant as ****
pic slightly related
In his head it was easy, "kill the mother, kill the child, chill with hookers", because he was arrogant as ****
pic slightly related
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sumsar (12/23/2015) [-]
he would have been the laughing stock of the wizard world. the article in the papers would have read, the dark lord was forced to use muggle means to kill an infinite. it would have ruined him before he even rose to power.
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quantumranger (12/24/2015) [-] I get your point, but it's like, "Haha this guy killed a baby with his bare hands, what a weakling". Technically true, but I think the important part would be the killing a baby
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noxface (12/23/2015) [-]
>physically attack a child which probably has numerous magical barriers to prevent it from happening and cause harm to the attacker
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>use powerful spell which is supposed to be able to circumvent any counter-curses and shields which had up until that point in history been 100% effective
Voldy made the right choice under those circumstances
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>use powerful spell which is supposed to be able to circumvent any counter-curses and shields which had up until that point in history been 100% effective
Voldy made the right choice under those circumstances
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quantumranger (12/24/2015) [-] He could have lit the house on fire. Or left baby harry to starve. I believe the wizarding world's reliance on magic has made them weak
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nexdemise (12/24/2015) [-]
It was already established that wizards are too dependent on magic and fail to see any way without using it.
You had the ministry assign Arthur Weasley to figuring out what muggle objects do. Hell, he literally asked Harry what's the purpose of a rubber duck. Considering that's middle-late 1990s the internet already existed so that's probably where they should start their research...
Also, in Goblet of Fire not a single student thought to just ask an older student to drop their name into the Goblet. The Weasley twins and few others tried to use aging potions to bypass it.
Basically, the wizarding world past the surface is really just completely stale. There is little innovation, it stopped somewhere around the time Hogwarts was formed and no one really gave it a second though. I mean **** , they still write with ******* quills. Quills are god damn awful and it's just absurd that not one single muggleborn child has brought a pen or a pencil into the school.
You had the ministry assign Arthur Weasley to figuring out what muggle objects do. Hell, he literally asked Harry what's the purpose of a rubber duck. Considering that's middle-late 1990s the internet already existed so that's probably where they should start their research...
Also, in Goblet of Fire not a single student thought to just ask an older student to drop their name into the Goblet. The Weasley twins and few others tried to use aging potions to bypass it.
Basically, the wizarding world past the surface is really just completely stale. There is little innovation, it stopped somewhere around the time Hogwarts was formed and no one really gave it a second though. I mean **** , they still write with ******* quills. Quills are god damn awful and it's just absurd that not one single muggleborn child has brought a pen or a pencil into the school.
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anon (12/24/2015) [-]
yeah but it wouldn't even have mattered, there was no way voldemort could have known about the protective spell, even then it was ancient magic that few people really understood at all. when voldemort cast the avada cadavera on harry it rebounded on himself, voldemort died for the first time in that room and the last bit of soul left in his body climbed into harry making him a horcrux meanwhile one of his other bits of soul came to and started working on a way to return, and that was the bit that the first defense against the dark arts encountered in his travels around the world. literally voldemort accidentally killed himself in an explosion.
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xgolgothax (12/24/2015) [-]
He used a spell because he wanted to make a horcrux...after the spell failed he had no ******* body to toss anything with.
