Quote:WengFook wrote:I always saw Voldemort as sort of a wizard version of Al-Qaeda. He wants to be in charge, to get rid of all the impure muggleborn and half-bloods, and generally overthrow the current order, but he hasn't any thought on anything beyond that. He surrounds himself with crazies, like Bella and Greyback, and toadies, like Pettigrew and some of the others that have speaking parts in the story, but no one with any kind of actual cunning. Of if there are cunning folk there, they're keeping below the radar, because Lord V. is just shy of pants-on-head crazy. If he won, he'd have no idea how to govern beyond the obligatory purges. If he'd succeeded, he'd have been... well, not overthrown, but certainly put in a sort of puppet figurehead sort of state by those Death Eaters that actually knew what they were doing, maybe Malfoy Sr., whose the only featured Death Eater with any sort of brains. Of course, since Lucien's not pants-on-head crazy like his sister-in-law or a psychopath like Greyback, he's not fully trusted by Lord V., and it's possible that Lucien gets purged for being "disloyal" once Voldemort's run out of actual enemies and the paranoia has started to eat at him. But given the portrayal of the Wizardgamot politicians in the books, it's likely that, if Voldemort won, a number of career politicians who knew how to speak Crazy would be able to insert themselves and run things while keeping their batshit fucking loco leader and his equally crazy inner circle entertained until they could poison them in their sleep or lock them away, leaving them to form a more lasting fascist government.
You'd have to figure out why Voldemort wasn't abusing the voting bloc himself to effect changes he wanted into place. Unless he was abusing it to make the wizarding government seem incompetent which is incredibly short sighted and foolish. :S
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