Well, pretty much any time you power up the heroes, you'll also need to power up the villains, unless it was such a mismatch form the beginning that you're only trading one deus ex machina for another.
(What do you call a sudden plot twist that beats the enemy with a giant robot? Deus Ex Maxima! Or maybe just "Megadeus X...")
Of course, one thing Voldemort seems to have overlooked in his whole fleeing from death, I am unkillable thing, is that there's things much worse than just dying - I suppose he counts on the "forces of light" to not be able to stomach, say, lopping off his arms and legs, treating the stumps with a combination acid/healing enchantment so they are eaten away exacty as fast as they regenerate and his body is maintained just short of death, and stuffing him in a sealed box that is then tossed into the foundation hole of a new muggle skyscraper just before the concrete is poured.
Heck, a Harry raised by someone like Dark Schneider or John COnstantine could probably summmon a demon, give it whatever horcruxes were handy (soul segments, after all) and bind it to find the rest of that soul and return to its hell.
I don't care how it comes about, though, I just want to see someone asking someone else incredulously, "What kind of pathetic, sorry excuse for a wizard uses a WAND!? What are you, Tinkerbell?" Preferably to Snape, so he can be smacked around for demonstration when he inevitably takes offense.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
(What do you call a sudden plot twist that beats the enemy with a giant robot? Deus Ex Maxima! Or maybe just "Megadeus X...")
Of course, one thing Voldemort seems to have overlooked in his whole fleeing from death, I am unkillable thing, is that there's things much worse than just dying - I suppose he counts on the "forces of light" to not be able to stomach, say, lopping off his arms and legs, treating the stumps with a combination acid/healing enchantment so they are eaten away exacty as fast as they regenerate and his body is maintained just short of death, and stuffing him in a sealed box that is then tossed into the foundation hole of a new muggle skyscraper just before the concrete is poured.
Heck, a Harry raised by someone like Dark Schneider or John COnstantine could probably summmon a demon, give it whatever horcruxes were handy (soul segments, after all) and bind it to find the rest of that soul and return to its hell.
I don't care how it comes about, though, I just want to see someone asking someone else incredulously, "What kind of pathetic, sorry excuse for a wizard uses a WAND!? What are you, Tinkerbell?" Preferably to Snape, so he can be smacked around for demonstration when he inevitably takes offense.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows