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*** 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.

**** Ironically, the heroes suffer the same failure in reverse -- they keep acting as if the Prophecy means that Harry is the only one who should ''fight'' Voldemort, when all it specifies is that he is the only one who can ''kill'' Voldemort. Harry would very likely have had an easier time pulling that off, with less reliance on giant strokes of luck, if Dumbledore had simply beaten Voldemort until he couldn't move and then asked Harry to finish up.

** In the first book, when Harry, Ron and Hermione discovered that Quirrell planned to steal the Philosopher's Stone, rather than trying to stop him themselves, why didn't they tell the school's teachers or staff about Quirrel's plans? Granted, they tried to inform Dumbledore about it and were told he wasn't at the school at that moment. But there were so many other teachers and members of the school's staff who were far more capable than three first-year students and would have handled the situation much better.

*** They did try to tell McGonagall, but she refused to listen and just insisted that the stone was protected well enough. Still, they might have tried harder or tried other teachers.