True, but he could have started out with somewhat good intentions. Tom wants to kill people. So he takes a pill that helps him kill people by letting him cast AK on anyone. At the time, he didn’t know this would rule out any spells—he already ‘knew’ he couldn’t cast a Patronus—and he figured (correctly?) he’d still want to preserve wizard society. At the very least he’d still want to preserve himself, which is a step up from the total destruction of humanity.
Hypothesis: Quirrell/Voldemort/Monroe’s goal is to protect his people (Wizards) from other people (Muggles). I’m sure we can all recall actual historical and current figures who have acted with such a goal, successfully and unsuccessfully, and with greater and lesser degrees of good and evil.
Quirrell, however, has shown no sign of having a “his people” of any sort. It’s fairly clear that Harry is the only person whose welfare he cares about other than his own, and that might well be for purely instrumental reasons.
With that said, a wizard-Muggle war would risk doing catastrophic damage to the world, and as he’s mentioned, he does happen to live in it and thus have a vested interest in its survival.
Yes, a misanthrope can still what the world and humanity to survive, and Quirrell has expressed both fear of Muggle weapons and a desire to see space travel succeed, both of which are very unusual for any wizard to even consider, much less care about. Draco, for instance, doesn’t even know humans have been to the moon until Harry tells him.
True, but he could have started out with somewhat good intentions. Tom wants to kill people. So he takes a pill that helps him kill people by letting him cast AK on anyone. At the time, he didn’t know this would rule out any spells—he already ‘knew’ he couldn’t cast a Patronus—and he figured (correctly?) he’d still want to preserve wizard society. At the very least he’d still want to preserve himself, which is a step up from the total destruction of humanity.
Hypothesis: Quirrell/Voldemort/Monroe’s goal is to protect his people (Wizards) from other people (Muggles). I’m sure we can all recall actual historical and current figures who have acted with such a goal, successfully and unsuccessfully, and with greater and lesser degrees of good and evil.
Quirrell, however, has shown no sign of having a “his people” of any sort. It’s fairly clear that Harry is the only person whose welfare he cares about other than his own, and that might well be for purely instrumental reasons.
With that said, a wizard-Muggle war would risk doing catastrophic damage to the world, and as he’s mentioned, he does happen to live in it and thus have a vested interest in its survival.
Yes, a misanthrope can still what the world and humanity to survive, and Quirrell has expressed both fear of Muggle weapons and a desire to see space travel succeed, both of which are very unusual for any wizard to even consider, much less care about. Draco, for instance, doesn’t even know humans have been to the moon until Harry tells him.
I would think that he would want wizards to win sheerly because they don’t have nuclear devices resting upon the whims of their politicians.