He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Name (who Voldemort?) Shhh!!!!

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 13434

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., wings909 at a... wrote:
> harry_potter00 at y... writes:
> > A villian that can kill his "friends" without any remorse is 
> > far scarier than one that simply kill those that he doesn't know
> > to gain power. Perhaps this is a personal perception. 
> 
> If that is true Scott...then what do you think about V killing his
> father? Didn't seem to me that V was remorseful telling Harry about
> that.  

Tom Marvolo Riddle's father was NOT someone that TMR liked, not 
someone he had spent time with. TMR's father was someone whom TMR 
hated and wanted revenge on. TMR told Harry that his father had 
deserted his mother before he was born. I have no reason to doubt 
that statement; if I did, I would have to think up another reason why 
a child with a living parent -- a *prosperous* living parent -- 
would have to live in an orphanage.

TMR told HP that his parents were married but his father deserted his 
pregnant mother because he found out that she was a witch, thus 
motivating his us-against-them hatred of Muggles. I don't doubt that 
he believed that -- neither his maternal grandparents nor the 
orphanage people would have been really eager to tell him that he was 
not only an accident but a bastard -- but it may not be true. It 
could be that his parents were not married nor even engaged, that his 
father never even knew that his mother was a witch, that his father's 
desertion of his mother consisted of refusing to marry her or even 
pay child support when she told him she was pregnant. 

I really appreciated the irony of TMR growing up to lead a mage 
anti-Muggle crusade out of deep rage at how he himself had been hurt 
by a Muggle's anti-mage prejudice, when really mage vs Muggle had 
nothing to do with it and it would have been more relevant for him to 
crusade against premarital sex.