Although it sounds persuasive to us, to Voldemort this would sound like exactly the sort of ‘intelligent idiocy’ that would only solidify his belief that Harry has to be killed right away.
Voldemort would be skeptical, yes, but he would also be interested, because “6. It is impossible to tell lies in Parseltongue” and because all this speech has to do is raise the risk enough that it makes more sense to stop and gather more information before killing Harry, thus it “allow[s] Harry to evade immediate death”. What do you think would improve the believability?
Although it sounds persuasive to us, to Voldemort this would sound like exactly the sort of ‘intelligent idiocy’ that would only solidify his belief that Harry has to be killed right away.
Voldemort would be skeptical, yes, but he would also be interested, because “6. It is impossible to tell lies in Parseltongue” and because all this speech has to do is raise the risk enough that it makes more sense to stop and gather more information before killing Harry, thus it “allow[s] Harry to evade immediate death”. What do you think would improve the believability?