whodoesntcare, I don’t know which book you read but it was canonically acknowledged that Voldermort lived his life that way because of his fear of death. Didn’t Dumbledore rattle on about how if Voldermort could love he would realize that death was just another journey. la la.

I don’t care about the similarity between Voldermort and Hitler tbh. In the context of Harry Potter, he failed to hold up as a villain. He was too stupid. J.K.Rowling tried to nail it into our heads that he was a genius wizard but all his acts betrayed an astounding level of stupidity. He set out for the Hocrux even in Hogwarts, yet did not somehow learned of the Hallows, which Dumbledore managed to. I don’t believe that anyone as obsessed or intelligence as he was would’ve not run into books and evidences of the Hallows’ existences.

And the thing with Hitler was that he gave his follower no reprise from the madness. If he had disappeared for 14 years, most of them would’ve double-checked and said “Wait a min, this is just wrong!”. But Voldermort just returned as a decrepit thing and everyone of his followers went back to their fanaticism? They had more than enough time to reassess the situation and see that Voldy was not an appropriate leader for their cause, given his tyranny and unstable mental health. The whole thing got constructed like a falling house of a plot.