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Voldemort and his minions pretty clearly don’t give a fuck about the Statue of Secrecy though. They violate it far more than anyone else. The issue with the non-magical world vs magical world stuff is that the mind control curse + teleportation + better-than-technologically-possible stealth...

I think it's perfectly legitimate for people to go that direction, in how they want to view the world and in any fiction inspired by Harry Potter they want to make. I just don't think it has textual support. It's entirely possible it would make for better fiction, it's just as I see it it's not...

I agree it could have been compelling, but it doesn't really pop up in the books. Nobody ever mentions the muggle world as anything like a threat, not even Muggle Borns. Actually, I'd argue that in Harry Potter there's an implicit assumption that the muggle world is basically irrelevant and...

I think part of the reason this is confused is that Voldemort had sequential motives but we deal with him during a lot of different time periods when and so it gets muddled up. My take on it was that Voldemort first pursued immortality and making that immortality as robust as possible. He didn't...

Yes to a lot of this, but I don't mean necessarily not epic. For instance - Sauron and Melkor were both losers. They were continually hemoraging power, becoming weaker, uglier, more twisted versions of themselves. Neither of them really got it - they could never have succeeded in replacing Eru...

Hmmm, so an interesting question I think there is on this topic is: Is it okay for a villain to be a loser? Should a villain be a loser?

Not necessarily, but I'd say a lot of the Dresden villains are pretty good and maybe something like that would be what to go for? I think part of the problem was (and this was definitely made worse by the movies) that actual combat magic in Harry Potter increasingly came off as like a laser gun...