Voldemort's Recruitment Scheme

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

If dementors bring back people's worst memories, and Voldemort is recruiting them, why doesn't he recruit Boggarts, which take the form of people's biggest fears. Surely the thought would of occurred to him. Or maybe boggarts can't really be recruited. Maybe they don't have a brain or anything controlling them, they simply exist, sense someones fear and change, and change, and change...
Now reading that, I could have put it in the "Boggarts" topic. But I haven't simply because that's not what I want this whole thread to be about.
I want all your opinions on how LV would go about recruiting his arm. Who and how mainly. I'm just interested.
Any ideas?

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Bad spelling, I'm not sure if you got that. What I mean is how LV would go about recruiting his army not arm lol

[Tanuki]

I don't think Boggart's are smart enough to be recruited. I get the feeling they're more like animals than thinking beings. Plus, how do you lead an army made of the things you fear most

[Hagger 9003]

its an army of things evryone else fears most. LV is fine with most of the giants. i doubt any1 likes the dementors tho.

he's going to want lots of wizards, because they are good spies, and flexible. he will do lots of blackmail, but quite a few will come to him out of fear. remember, every1 thought that LV was dead. seeing him come back to life is even more scary for most people than before, so many people will think him invincible. also, he will use imperius curse quite a bit as well.

[Mistress Siana]

A common enemy is often a reason to become friends. There are a lot of beings that are excluded from the wizard society, that are discriminated and/or looked down to by the ministry. Look at the way Lupin is treated, even the centaurs are considered inferior, and it's said somewhere that the dementor are needed (and paid with happy memories) but not seen as a part of society. Voldemort wants to destroy the ministry, and considering the way they are treated by the ministry, some "creatures" might think of that as a good idea. Voldemort will definitely use that, saying something like "join me in the fight for a new society, and you'll be a part of it." I don't think it would work with the centaurs, but the giants, the vampires, possibly even the werewolves? You couldn't even blame them, could you?

[DragonFiend17]

LV couldnt recruit them becuase they would just turn into what HE fears... yeah, so i agree with they dont really have a brain they jsut do their job--frighten people (with that bizarre clown) *shivers*

[Mistress Siana]

Hm, actually I think that boggarts are overrated. Sure, sometimes (like in Harry's case), there's no difference between the actual object of your fear and the boggart. But if you know it's a boggart, if you know that what you see is not, say, Voldemort, but a stupid, absolutely harmless little creature putting on a Voldemort-mask, so what? If your greatest fear is the death of a beloved one and your boggart turns into the corpse of that person, it might feel strange, but not at all as terrible as it would if it were real.

So, if Voldemort's greatest fear was death, or Dumbledore as suggested, I doubt he would run away crying just because of a reflection. However, I doubt that boggarts are intelligent creatures, so Voldemort would rather try to catch some than recruit them.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Hmm I wonder how he'd catch them. Somehow I doubt a net would work lol. Nah but seriously if he wanted to put boggarts to use, I'm pretty sure he could find a way. He's such a powerful wizard that seeing his boggart probably wouldn't really affect him, he'd just say the spell and whoosh!
Using boggarts would be handy though.
And if LV's fear was death itself, would his boggart be him lying on the floor dead?

[Tanuki]

[quote="Hagger 9003"]its an army of things evryone else fears most. LV is fine with most of the giants. i doubt any1 likes the dementors tho.

The giants and the dementors can be communicated with and can interact with areasoning beings. Boggarts don't seem to have even these higher functions

[DragonFiend17]

Yeah, you can interact with giants if you know what to do...dementors seem to always have someone controling them, you know? Ministry to Voldy...hmm, no freedom at all lol...i dunno if you can communicate with a boggart--the only things they understand are fear and--well--laughter. sort of.

[Un'Anima Persa]

What about boggarts?? Are they controlled by someone that rules over them?

do they have brains??

Are they simply feeding off the brains of those they bring fear to?

How exactly do they know what a certain person fears??

So, if they are mindless, why dosen't Voldemort just take them onto the dark side??

I think that they feed off of the brains of those they bring fear to. It makes sense... or at leats i think so...

[Tanuki]

I think its ability to produce the illusion of whatever someone fears is actually more of an instinct, and power it doesn't use intentionally, but does so it can both survive and feed. I don't think Voldermort CAN get their loyalty. He'd have to corral them which is probably impossible

[Un'Anima Persa]

lol... then they would all turn into big fuzzy wuzzy bears!

lol

[Tween_Luv]

Also, LV probably does't really want boggarts to control. because, he is going to have to eventually get them into an area with some of his wizards , and when they turn into the wizards most fears..well, the wizards which he is recruiting will probably kill or get theboggarts away. Anyway, the boggarts aren't really thinking creatures, they aren't really...animals...either, they are just ... there..just things which turn into your worst fear. What could LV give them that would win their loyalty? They dont need anything really...hmm..its so confusing!!

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Yeah, I think if Voldemort wanted to use them, he would shepherd them into a room or something.