Character Sketch: Lord Voldemort

[Snuffles MacGoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 13755

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., ourobouros_1999 at y... wrote:
Great Post Amy!

Sorry it's not clear to me from the previous post who said what
> 
"He doesn't only want to kill people, but wants > to take over the 
world and leads an organization of people who want > to help him do 
it (that's the overlord part. To be an overlord, you > need minions), 
overthrow the government, rebuild the world in his own > image, etc." 

poor darling obviously has poor self-esteem and needs lots of 
external reinforcement <g>

> How many people know of his true identity as Tom Marvolo Riddle? 
> Isn't it odd that no one, after his defeat, would write about it or 
> discuss where Lord V came from? Certainly wizards just don't pop 
out > of nowhere. 

I've thought about this before. THe only analalogy I have is with the 
Japanese attitude to thier actions in WW2. Historically in Japan 
school books have been very quite about Japanses actions during WW2.

However, it was reported in Australian papers a couple of weekends 
ago that school books are now being released which referred to the 
Japanese acts as assisting SE asia to through of the chains of 
european domination. The same books deny the existance of the mass 
enslavement and rape of Korean and other women as 'comfort women', 
stating that the women choose this occupation. My point is that it is 
possible to ignore inconveient or uncomfortable information, even if 
it stares you in the face. Japanese society began immeaidately after 
the war to wipe out accounts of thier aggression, 50 years on they 
have completely remodeled thier history.*

If Wizard society is anything like Japanese society in this respect 
(and if Fudge is at all representive it may well be) then it is 
entierly possible they suffer a similar cultural amnesia about 
otherwise well documented events.

Storm

*In case anyone thinks I'm having a shot at the Japanese, I'm not. 
Australia did the same thing in re-writing history regarding its 
polices towards Aboriginal ppl and towards not English migrants (the 
'White Australia' policy). This has begun to change in the past 15 
years in terms of our history books.