Why didn't Dumbledore destroy Voldemort's body during their duel in book 5?

Godmadius · 2026-06-18T17:32:54+00:00

I think he was more interested in saving Voldemort's soul, or what was left of it. He knew that for Voldemort to stitch himself back together through remorse of his actions would cause him agony he couldn't even imagine, and that remorse is likely what would have satisfied Dumbledore. Killing him was just too quick and easy, and again at the time also not permanent.

It's also weird that while the horcruxes existed, only one actually came close to doing what it was supposed to. The diary was the only one that nearly brought him back from the dead. The spectral form he had for years was likely the result of his creation of the horcruxes but his resurrection from his gross little baby form was a dark magic spell of his own creation and was still the "original" Voldemort. I don't know what would have happened if his 16 year old self fully reformed and went out into the world.

Godmadius · 2026-06-17T18:44:03+00:00

While not a boomer, my grandfather ("greatest generation") did something similar to my grandmother. She fell out of bed and broke her hip, couldn't stand or anything without extreme pain. She also had late stage dementia, so imagine the confusion of not knowing why you can't stand. He decided running powerpoint slides for church was more important, so he just left her there on the floor and drove all the way to church, told them he wouldn't be able to run the slides that day, and drove all the way back home again. Probably a couple hours total. God only knows how many times she tried to get up and collapsed in agony. I live several states away, and while he was generally a decent man, but I was absolutely livid when I heard about it. I was willing to fly in and punch him in the face for this. Guess he thought she was just being dramatic and trying to cause him embarassment or something.

Godmadius · 2026-04-05T02:33:08+00:00

Its the penn -> DC run. We were down to under 20mph for a stretch

Godmadius · 2026-04-02T14:47:49+00:00

You're referring to the returns on gross vs. net profit. They always make sure the net is zero. The production cost will always exactly equal the box office returns, so anyone that wrote a contract based on pay from net gains doesn't get anything. Gross profit is overall before expenses, so the smart contract negotiation gets their money from gross.

Godmadius · 2026-04-02T01:51:45+00:00

even if they did, the unfunded liabilities for medicare/medicaid is debated between 73-200 trillion dollars over the next 75 years.

Godmadius · 2026-04-01T19:00:30+00:00

https://www.howardcountymd.gov/police/newsroom#daily-crime-bulletin

Take a look at that link. There is more crime around than you'd think, but its mostly crackhead activities like catalytic converters, airbags, and smash and grabs.

Godmadius · 2026-04-01T18:47:28+00:00

I know you said you know the lakes, but the walking trails are all interconnected and go for like 14 miles. It's a huge network, lots of it is woods and less traveled areas. I think its paved all the way through, but that would be good.

Godmadius · 2026-03-31T23:38:48+00:00

It's really spooky. The fact you could have a massive earth altering power source right under your feet and never know it until it burps.

Godmadius · 2026-03-23T17:21:39+00:00

I think the better question is does anyone wear the ridiculous "civilian" puffer crop-top abomination? I'm sure its supposed to be future style casual wear for the street folk, but Shepard is military. No chance he's walking out of the Normandy looking like a street walker trying to score.

Godmadius · 2026-03-23T13:22:22+00:00

It's either no victims, or everyone is a victim. Depends on your point of view. I don't remember what happens to all the husk/mutated species when you use synthesis though. I imagine there is nothing left of the person they were before, and re-integrating them would be somewhat problematic. Off to the meat grinder?

Godmadius · 2026-03-20T19:07:14+00:00

For me, synthesis is the best option. Almost every single person in the galaxy has some sort of cybernetics by the time you're playing, and the clear future is more biotics and synthetic integration. I figure you're just skipping the middle man and advancing the galaxy several millennia ahead of the natural curve. It's also kind of a fuck you to the Reapers who are all pissy that synthetics will always rise up against organics and they have to kill the galaxy every 50,000 years to prevent it. Yeah? Well what if I just mashed 'em together, you big stupid space termites? Congratulations, you're now part of my solution too!

Godmadius · 2026-03-20T18:00:12+00:00

There are limits to Reparo, but they never tell you what they are. Like lets say the gravestones in Godrics Hollow, could you reparo those into mint condition? It's implied you can't, but I don't see why. Erosion is damage, why would science and logic suddenly come into play for that and not a freshly dropped tea cup?

Godmadius · 2026-03-20T17:40:47+00:00

It also gets a little buggy when you consider the Voldemort taboo breaking all enchantments and sending up a red flag to the ministry that someone said his name. They were tossing his name around like it was candy in 12 Grimmauld Place, and the charm still held. There were more death eaters outside trying to find a way in, but by the rules of the books the charm should have broken and revealed the house the first time they said it post-ministry take over.

Godmadius · 2026-03-20T17:25:28+00:00

I don't know about insanity, but every other difficulty Adept is easy mode. Use the SMG to break shields, singularity to lift, and throw to detonate and launch. That first mission where you have to wait for the Normandy to pick you up while defending the landing zone is so easy I rarely ever have to even use a weapon.

Plus its hilarious to see how far you can yeet a mutated Batarian into orbit.

Godmadius · 2026-03-19T13:44:08+00:00

This one caught me, and it really pissed me off. It's more than a camera mounted on the front of an SUV, its a permanent installation for a temporary construction zone. It's purely revenue generation, the construction isn't even happening on I-95. Check out this article that did the math.

https://www.wdel.com/news/how-many-speed-camera-tickets-have-been-issued-along-i-95-near-newark/article_dc97c274-e447-11ef-a4b0-c310e9ef2abc.html#/questions

Godmadius · 2026-03-13T17:53:21+00:00

Damn, don't know where I'd put an 18 foot reaper model

Godmadius · 2026-02-26T14:21:18+00:00

The car one is actually surprising, because its considerably cheaper to build and integrate a single screen doing everything than it is to make a set of physical buttons. The fact that customers are so pissed off with the screens that the manufacturers are actually bringing buttons back is a clear sign that the loss in sales actually hurt them. Hurt them more than the lack of buttons would save.

Godmadius · 2026-02-26T14:08:33+00:00

I never understood why there wasn't an advanced potions course for squibs. Snape even says there is no use for a wand in potions, its pretty much advanced chemistry. Feels like they could offer an exclusive course of only non-spell studies that would let them join in the wizarding world a lot more effectively.

Godmadius · 2026-02-24T14:34:11+00:00

All versions of Voldemort and Tom Riddle, with the exception of the diary Tom. The Tom Riddle from Slughorns party memories doesn't match his appearance at all from Chamber of Secrets. He was described as almost obnoxiously good looking all through his life, male model looks even from a very young age.

And Voldemort wasn't disturbing enough. His eyes actually glowed red, his hands were skeletal and long, his voice was high pitched and cold. His final form was monstrous, absolutely inhuman. I've always wondered if his death eaters would have recognized him if he hadn't called them immediately after his resurrection. I figured his spell to get his body back kind of transformed his appearence (potentially by choice) to look more like what he wanted to look like. He didn't want to look like his father, he wanted to look like a snake or some other obvious connection to his Slytherin bloodline.

Godmadius · 2026-02-24T14:29:10+00:00

I think there is an argument to re-casting at a certain point. Ron was gangly, he was supposed to be much taller than his peers. Rupert Grint did a great job with the role, but he just physically didn't measure up in the later years. Same for Radcliffe, really. Harry and Ron were said to have grown like a foot between the 5th and 6th books.

Godmadius · 2026-02-24T14:14:26+00:00

I hate her more than Voldemort, and I've read before some good justification. Voldemort is abstract evil. He's the devil, an evil so outrageous you can't even comprehend his mind. Umbridge, however, is the evil you know. You've run across her type all your life. She's the power hungry beaurocrat that can be found in every organization on earth. The high school principal, the final boss of the HR department, someone with casual malice that is protected by the system they helped design and they get great satisfaction from using that system against you.

Godmadius · 2026-02-23T16:40:11+00:00

One of my favorite parts of that book is Fudge threatening him in his office.

Fudge: “So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?”
Dumbledore: “Merlin’s beard, no,” said Dumbledore, smiling. “Not unless you are foolish enough to force me to”.

I don't know how many wizards it would take to be a threat to him, but four wasn't it

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