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I don't know about the others, but I'm not sure Voldemort counts. The sixth book is basically "Harry, now I'm going to show you why Voldemort is the way he is" followed by scenes of his past, where it emerges he grew up in a loveless environment. And "the power of love" is one of the key things in the series.

I'm not saying his past justifies all the things he did, but the way I see it, the bad things in his past were never said to be a non-issue either. We were also given a motivation for some of his villainy - his fascination with death and determination never to be caught by it.

Rowling said it didn't matter that he grew up in an orphanage. The look into his past was to show he was always a little antichrist and was born a psychopath. So yeah he counts as a cardboard cutout evil for the sake of it villain.

Ah, I see. The look into his past doesn't actually show me he was born a psychopath, but it doesn't show me that he wasn't either. I'm happy to accept it if Rowling says so.

I don't think it was ever implied Voldemort "grew up in a loveless environment". At least I never got that out of the text.

The people, what little we saw of them, at the orphanage seemed normal, so I don't think there was anymore lack of love than a typical orphanage. Not an ideal environment no, but not anywhere enough to cause someone to be evil.

What we did see was Voldemort admitting to feeling superior, taking pride and pleasure in hurting others, being a source of fear to others and delighting in it, and keeping trophies from his victims; the first three to show he was always evil by nature, with the last the most important as it's the key to how the other memories relate to horcruxes.

I don't think it was ever implied Voldemort "grew up in a loveless environment". At least I never got that out of the text.

Yeah, that probably wasn't the best wording, sorry.

Not an ideal environment no, but not anywhere enough to cause someone to be evil.

And I repeat: I'm not saying his past justifies all the things he did, but the way I see it, the bad things in his past were never said to be a non-issue either.

I don't believe his background is justification. My point was simply that he believed that he'd had an unpleasant childhood, and he used that to justify things to himself - it doesn't wash with me, but his past was significant to him, so it doesn't really seem like it's a 'lol I'm just evil 'cause I am' thing. The secret OP mentioned 'tragic pasts' and 'sad backstories', and I think there was an element of that in Voldemort's backstory. I mean, would you argue that he had a happy childhood?

the first three to show he was always evil by nature

Much as I agree with everything else you wrote, I don't understand this. The idea of 'always' did not come through definitively in the text for me. I have no idea whether Voldemort was 'always' a psychopath and as far as I can recall this wasn't addressed - he easily could have been, in fact I believed it was likely even before someone told me Rowling had said he was, but I don't see proof about him always being anything in the few anecdotes and memories we get.

But yeah, just to be clear, I think Voldemort is an awful monster and don't believe his past justifies that.

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