optimal decision he responds emotionally.

Many of the difficulties Voldemort faced around his first defeat, and later his engagement with Harry, arose from the incomplete version of the prophecy he heard. Once he regained power openly he began to attempt to seize the original record of the prophecy. Tricking Harry into retrieving it as only those involved in the prophecy could access it, it is instead destroyed in the fight. Following this assault on the Ministry Voldemort then decides to begin the Second Wizarding War and attacks by Voldemort’s army began, an act that also works to unite his enemies, which provides support to Harry. Thus we begin to see that each choice Voldemort makes leads him closer and closer to his own downfall.

Rebirth of a Monster

Voldemort is anirredeemable villain. There has been a rise in the popularity of the tortured bad guy, one who has experienced hardships and made hard choices, who might be saved, but time runs out. Voldemort is not this type of hero, he emerges with a clear goal, to kill Harry Potter, and does not waiver from this choice or from the deaths of those who stand in his way. The final form of Voldemort is truly a monster, stripped of many human characteristics. He appears finally as skeletally thin, his face opaque, with deep, dark scarlet eyes set in slits, and his nose is flat as a snake’s.

In many ways the rebirth of Voldemort was a continuation of his previous trajectory. He had already begun the First Wizarding War, where