Voldemort waits outside the school gates for Harry. When the holidays come and Harry leaves the grounds, BAM! He won't know what hit him.
Voldie turns generous and decides to share the joy of murdering Harry Potter. He will be dead before you can say AAAAH! I mean, it's better to be alive and safe, yet without the pleasure of having killed Harry, than to be dead and STILL haven't killed Harry!
Volemort disguises himself as…well, there are lots of possibilities that could fill in the dotted line. Then he murders Harry.
I just had a thought, it would be soooo funny if Voldemort was punished to stay with the Lovegoods for a while! Could you imagine it? Luna instructing Voldemort on how to catch Pimplies or something. Tee hee.
Voldemort holds Ron or Hermione hostage using some of the methods above.
Voldemort bribes Snape by lying and saying that Lily Potter is still alive, but James is not and if Snape kills Harry then Lily will be ever so grateful because she thinks that Harry is a pain.
Okay, okay. So that one's pretty unlikely. But hey, Snape is pretty gullible.
Voldemort sets up a trap for Harry in…I dunno, some shop or something where Harry is likely to go. Oh yeah. He tried that before. At Godric's Hollow. Well, this time he can make sure that Hermione is out of the way.
Voldy-woldy installs rocket-powered engines to his feet. I mean, several times Harry would have been killed if only Voldemort had got a move on. Really, I mean, it's not like there's a speed limit!
Voldemort uses something much less obvious as his Horcrux. I mean, did he really think that Harry / Dumbles wouldn't guess half of those items? If it had been some smelly trainer in Australia in a kangaroo pouch, it would never have been destroyed!
Voldemort plants a small and inconspicuous bomb in Hermione's handbag. Or Harry's rucksack.
Voldemort puts more protection on the Ministry. If I had a bottle of PolyJuice potion, I could have entered it in five minutes, graffitied all of the walls of people's offices (something like 'Voldie is a sissy') and left. And apparently, that was the most dangerous place for Harry in England!
At this point, can I just point out how stupid Mrs Weasly is? She really expected Harry to go to Hogwarts? Didn't she realise that if he went there…well, he probably wouldn't even make it to the station! And if he did make it to Hogwarts, he'd only be there a couple of seconds before…BANG! Mwah ha hah.
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