VOLDEMORT OR DUMBLEDORE?

In our facebook page WISDOM OF ALBUS PERCIVAL WULFRIC BRIAN DUMBLEDORE, we were asked a question of which, we have presented an answer.

Q: What did Voldemort fear? And what does it imply? If he feared Dumbledore, was Dumbledore better than him? But Dumbledore himself admitted that Voldemort could do things he never could.

A: ‘Being’ Voldemort, or his army, was a dream to those who fancied Dark Arts. He could perform extraordinary magical experiments and that, without uttering a word and, sometimes, even without a wand. He was a half blood who never loved his kind, especially his father Marvolo. He considered the mixture of pure blood and “mudblood” as extremely abominable. He used to torture the muggle born wizards in the worst manner possible. He used to invade the minds of his victims, designing visions that would torture them to madness and when, after extracting the exquisite ounce of goodness in them, they would beg to die.   

Voldemort’s greatest fear was death and wisdom (may not be in the same order).

He created Horcrux to triumph over death; he divided his soul into seven parts, with a hope of being invincible. Later his greed turned out to be his enemy; in fact, death, itself, was his enemy, for he, a half-blood mortal, considered himself greater than the immortal enemy death. His vanity would not allow him to revere death. He violated the rule of nature; he, a part of subtle entity, attempted to redesign the codes of nature. His lack of conscience ensured his death.

Revere the death and most importantly, accept it and it shall reward you a few more days. There is a reason why Nicholas Flammel lived for more than six hundred years or Dumbledore lived for more than a hundred and fifty years. There is a reason why Grimm brothers were tricked by death. The only one way to delay the death is to acknowledge it. One way to defeat the death is to consider oneself defeated.

The second thing Voldemort feared was wisdom (when I say second, I do not mean in the order of priority). The only known wizard he feared was Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. His fear of Dumbledore is highly symbolic because Dumbledore was immense wisdom epitomized. Ever since his days at Hogwarts, he feared Dumbledore. Voldemort, deep down in his heart, knew that Dumbledore had wisdom that he can never equalize.

Voldemort was great for his kind but to the wizards in his correct state of mind, he was foolish. The best suited for the power is the one who never attempted to seek for the same. In other words, wisdom is the greatest power of all. Voldemort knew it but, foolish as he was, he chose to overlook this subtlety, for this was beyond his capability. He never understood the meaning of love; he never dared to make himself abundantly clear as why he could never win over the laws of nature. He fancied the dark arts and allowed himself to be marred by greed. Had he possessed wisdom, he would have never dared to choose the dark side. And how foolish he was, to not allow wisdom possess him. Wisdom is a good thing and good thing never dies. He never accepted the righteousness inside him. In fact, he dedicated his life, even at the moment of his death, to win over the good half that resided, naturally, in him. Had he possessed wisdom, he would have and would have been been loved and revered.    

Indeed, Voldemort could do things Dumbledore couldn’t but why should it mean, that Voldemort was better wizard than Dumbledore. Voldemort could do extremely dark stuffs and Dumbledore couldn’t. Voldemort could split his soul to vanquish the death but Dumbledore couldn’t. It doesn’t mean Dumbledore feared the death; in fact he respected the death. At the vital moment, he accepted the death. He could, if he wished, unite the Hallows and be invincible. But being wise, he left that for “the greater good”.  

Voldemort displayed many symptoms which is sufficient to prove him as foolish enough to be incapable of being the greatest wizard. He never understood that Harry was a Horcrux he never intended to make. He did not realize that one does not have to kill the previous owner to win the elder wand. Voldemort accepted cowardice and was intolerably pathetic. I do believe I am not wrong if I say it was Dumbledore who defeated Voldemort.

Voldemort never understood why death was a great adventure and constantly feared the death. Dumbledore could see through the invisibility cloak but Voldemort couldn’t. If he could, he would have discovered Harry in the Shrieking Sack. In the chamber of secrets, Voldemort never realized that Phoenix could have healed Harry Potter. His vanity would never allow himself to regard the powers a ‘bird’ may possess. He never understood that a true Gryffindor, like Harry, could use the sword of Godric Gryffindor. Voldemort never bothered to understand the power of Pensive, which was crucially important contraption (an invention of Dumbledore) in defeating the dark lord.

In fact, Dumbledore, after his death, defeated something that Voldemort dearly wished to defeat, i.e. DEATH itself. It was Dumbledore who facilitated Hallows to Harry Potter.