Voldemort Saved His Pettiest Move Against Harry Potter Until the Very End (and Still Failed)

In the seventh book, the Dark Lord is doing just about everything he can to kill Harry and Co. It makes sense that by the end he would be desperate and willing to try anything. Still, we didn't think that he would just lose all sense of reality.

Remember when, in the final battle, Harry takes his sweet time getting why the Elder Wand doesn't work for him through Voldemort's thick skull?

The Chosen One literally gives Riddle a step-by-step guide to what happened to make Harry the true master of the wand, sparing no detail or effort.

You'd think that after failing so many times, Voldemort would listen to Harry for once and (preposterous of us to even suggest that) trust what he is saying.

As if! He prefers to dismiss it all because there is no way that anyone could be so lucky and just go for the kill one last time. If that isn't the definition of petty, we don't know what is.

There could be several other explanations for this poorly thought-through move.

Voldemort could have just tuned out in the middle of Harry's monologue (we know we did). He could also have taken the part about Snape's betrayal and unrequited love not seriously.

The more believable option is that Riddle was as arrogant as ever and simply thought that he, the Greatest Dark Wizard of All Time, knew better than a lucky schoolboy with average magical abilities.

Well, Harry showed him what's good!

Even after all he lost, sweet little Harry gave Voldemort a chance to redeem himself, to feel remorse, and to escape eternal damnation in the King's Cross limbo world.

Harry was kind to the very end. Too bad that it all went completely over Voldemort's head. Tough crowd, Harry!

In the end, Voldemort's downfall came as expected: his arrogance and dismissal of the power of love were the end of him both times.