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** [[Big Bad|Voldemort]] would have been able to kill Harry many times in the series if he hadn't arrogantly insisted on having to kill Harry personally. Since his wand and Harry's are linked and unable to work properly against each other, Voldemort instead spends half the series being thwarted by this connection and half the final book trying to find a loophole by using other wands, when at any time he could have just ordered his servants to kill Harry on sight for him.
*** Though there is the point that Voldemort runs a fairly EVIL group, which has mixed loyalties, a near amatuer can take out the best Magician given surprise or some other advantage (Draco vs Dumbledore, Harry vs whoever) means that theoratically any of the Death Eaters could take out Voldemort, and the fact that Voldemort's ace in the hole, immortality, merely means he is reduced to a wandering spirit instead of outright killed... You must realize that Voldemort rules through FEAR and by keeping an image of supremacy and invulnerability. So... no, he CAN'T ask one of his minions to destroy his arch-nemesis for him. One, it makes him look bad. Two, it makes his minion look TOO GOOD...
**** One, Draco took Dumbledore only because Dumbledore was both already dying of poison and not resisting. Two, Voldemort's most lethal minion (Bellatrix) is also his most fanatically loyal minion, the one who worships him as a god and spends most of her on-screen time begging for the privilege of slaying Voldemort's enemies in his name. And third, its not like Tom necessarily has to tell his minions the ''truth'' about how Harry died. Heck, thanks to the handy Obliviate spell, Tom doesn't even have to let whatever minion does the job for him remember how Harry really died.
*** Also, the prophecy in a round about way said that only one could kill the other, so he most likely decided not to waste the manpower doing something he believed to be pointless anyway.
**** The prophecy is a valid objection, but the former one doesn't quite fly—Voldemort's most fanatically loyal Death Eater, the one who serves him because she genuinely worships him and not because of fear, is also his #1 killer. Asking Bellatrix to soften Harry up first and then putting in the kill shot himself would have worked for Voldemort ''far'' better than what he actually tried. To be fair, Bellatrix isn't out of Azkaban until book five, leaving Voldemort a good excuse for the first four books.
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