Chapter 35 - more, and more and more

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 14582

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Schlobin at a... wrote:
(some very good observations on fathers and sons)
> 
> 2) What about Barty Crouch, Jr. and Lord Voldemort.....some have
> suggested that Barty's worship has an erotic base --

G'rrr. Junior was only like 8 years old when Tom Marvolo Riddle (a 
biological human wizard) turned into Lord Voldemort (an immortal 
snake-man, who, I am CONVINCED, has neither sexual desire nor sexual 
ability).

I think Junior inherited a gene for fanaticism from both side: 
Sirius told us about Senior's fanatic opposition to the Death Eaters 
(which would not require a genetic/psychological tendency to 
fanaticism!), and Mother's demand to spend her last days as a 
prisoner with Dementors in Azkaban in order to free her awful son 
sounds like a fanatic level of mother-love to me. That Junior became 
a fanatically loyal follower of V rather than a fanatic opponent of V 
or a fanatic follower of some Quidditch team is kind of random -- 
that he sought out what his father hated or that the DE cult seeks 
out convertible people...