Before Harry shot at him, Voldemort was cursed to be unable to threaten Harry’s immortality, and given the several times he’s found himself getting wrong answers to questions previously, I don’t think he was certain Harry would have betrayed him even with such a convenient que. So that covers anything that happens before Harry fires the gun.
After that point… I think he’s trying to cover his bases. That he set up such a ploy to enable him to kill Harry means that he’s likely at least going to try. But that’s not the only Winning move, and it’s a Winning move that prevents other Winning moves from being attempted.
“There are plots that must succeed, where you keep the core idea as simple as possible and take every precaution.”
“All thiss, all I have done, iss to ssmassh that desstiny at every point of intervention.”
This is one of those plots. “Keep Harry Potter from destroying universe” does not allow duct tape, WD-40, and lesser wishes to attempt a do-over. Killing Harry is probably the most effective way to keep that from happening, if you can do it. The last time Vold tried to subvert or redirect a Prophecy by destroying most of a person involved, things went so badly he spent most of a decade as a howling disembodied spirit. It’s not been explicitly stated that Prophecies act like Time Turners (aka DO NOT MESS WITH TIME/NO), but it’s pretty strongly implied to result in something like Mage’s Paradox or Continuum’s Frag. Resurrecting Hermoine and giving aid to Harry Potter was something that had to be done before any Death Eaters were summoned and arrived, and was about the only such thing, and was disjoint enough from people directly related to the Prophecy as to be unlikely to result in Paradox/Frag.
Vold knows Harry’s best friend as a pillar of restrictions. Even if we know her to be a threat to his plans, Vold knows that her death triggered Harry’s transformation into The One Who Tears Stars and that this is more dangerous than even an immortal Hermoine.
((I think he forgot some of the matters he said earlier, though. The Parsletongue curse will probably strike soon since he promised neither he nor his would seek to ever harm Hermoine. I’m genuinely surprised that cutting curse here didn’t already cause something horrible to happen to him.))
Don’t think the curse actually enforces oaths, just ensures that you’re telling the truth at the time you said it.
Besides, Voldemort, from his point of view, isn’t harming Hermione—since, after all, he just went ridiculously out of his way to make sure she wouldn’t care.
Before Harry shot at him, Voldemort was cursed to be unable to threaten Harry’s immortality, and given the several times he’s found himself getting wrong answers to questions previously, I don’t think he was certain Harry would have betrayed him even with such a convenient que. So that covers anything that happens before Harry fires the gun.
After that point… I think he’s trying to cover his bases. That he set up such a ploy to enable him to kill Harry means that he’s likely at least going to try. But that’s not the only Winning move, and it’s a Winning move that prevents other Winning moves from being attempted.
This is one of those plots. “Keep Harry Potter from destroying universe” does not allow duct tape, WD-40, and lesser wishes to attempt a do-over. Killing Harry is probably the most effective way to keep that from happening, if you can do it. The last time Vold tried to subvert or redirect a Prophecy by destroying most of a person involved, things went so badly he spent most of a decade as a howling disembodied spirit. It’s not been explicitly stated that Prophecies act like Time Turners (aka DO NOT MESS WITH TIME/NO), but it’s pretty strongly implied to result in something like Mage’s Paradox or Continuum’s Frag. Resurrecting Hermoine and giving aid to Harry Potter was something that had to be done before any Death Eaters were summoned and arrived, and was about the only such thing, and was disjoint enough from people directly related to the Prophecy as to be unlikely to result in Paradox/Frag.
Vold knows Harry’s best friend as a pillar of restrictions. Even if we know her to be a threat to his plans, Vold knows that her death triggered Harry’s transformation into The One Who Tears Stars and that this is more dangerous than even an immortal Hermoine.
((I think he forgot some of the matters he said earlier, though. The Parsletongue curse will probably strike soon since he promised neither he nor his would seek to ever harm Hermoine. I’m genuinely surprised that cutting curse here didn’t already cause something horrible to happen to him.))
Don’t think the curse actually enforces oaths, just ensures that you’re telling the truth at the time you said it.
Besides, Voldemort, from his point of view, isn’t harming Hermione—since, after all, he just went ridiculously out of his way to make sure she wouldn’t care.