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⌈ Secret Post #461 ⌋

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Update on the LJ situation.

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Yes, you are remembering correctly, he did do that. :) Yes, there is a lot of nature over nurture factor to take into consideration.

The "Voldemort incapable of loving" thing is definitely what made me feel that he lacked depth in the first place. Then you learn that he only has a fraction of a soul. That, to me, came off as the missing piece to the puzzle, so to speak.

Once again, I distinct Tom Riddle different from Voldemort. Voldemort couldn't bear love, obviously. lol But I got the distinct impression that this was due to the fact he only had a fraction of a soul. He did something very evil, on multiple occasions, in the process removing chunks of his humanity in each instance. Such an act was done out of shear selfishness, completely contrary to love--caring so much for someone, you're willing to sacrifice your own feelings and even life for the benefit of that other person. So I personally feel that his inability to feel love came from his actions, not that he was born that way.

As far as Tom's childhood, he was raised in the orphanage. Though I will say Merope using a potion to trick Riddle Sr. wasn't a good thing by any means, I do believe she honestly was a good person. Her ideals strayed from her abusive father's prejudice, and in the end, she realized what she did was wrong, thus she quit administering the potion. I believe that had Merope survived, she probably would have been a very loving mother. Tom was raised by caretakers who came off to me as somewhat neglectful (sending doctors to poke at him because he was so 'odd', letting an eleven-year-old go to Diagon Alley unattended. wtf?). Had he been raised in a home with a loving mother, so he didn't feel the need to act out and torment animals, would he have really done so? Would he really been incapable of love then?

Anyway, I don't believe Tom was a 'good soul' who was 'corrupted' by any means. I'd be more willing to say that about Death Eaters actually, but I'll save that. What I'm saying is that the paths dealt to him that were beyond his control led him to the monster he became. While he never may have been a shining good guy with flowers and kittens, I think Dumbledore could have prevented the tyranny he reaped on the wizarding world. After all, it's pretty rare that sociopaths actually turn into genocidal dictators.

I see your point, but I still disagree. He lacked empathy, plain and simple. He was like Rhoda in 'The Bad Seed'. I will concede that perhaps with a lot of careful parenting and mentoring he would not have become a megalomaniac, but something less ambitiously murderous, like a serial killer (ala Dexter). But there was something off about the boy, even when he had his soul intact.

IAWTC

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