[ SECRET POST #2283 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2283 ⌋

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Comments

Re: ...am I even getting your point?

[scherrymouse]

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.