[HPforGrownups] Re: Fate and Choices

[Yoris]

No: HPFGUIDX 42330

Nicole, who had fun deconstructing Voldemort, said:

> I think this is where the choices come into play.  Canon tells us
> that when Voldemort was in school, he was Tom Riddle, a handsome,
> talented, and high-performing student.  I think that he may have once
> been a very different person from what he was but that, as he grew
> older, he grew more and more bitter.  His father's abandonment
> obviously affected him greatly and I think that getting his revenge
> became a kind of obsession to him that made the Dark Arts look very
> appealing.  If he were to become a powerful Dark wizard, he could
> certainly show his father that he is not insignificant, that he is
> not some piece of trash to be discarded.  I'm inclined to believe
> that this was his first motive in his quest for power.  Adopting the
> title of "lord" is another indication of this.  By giving himself
> this honorific title, it's like he's trying to rise above his real
> situation.  He hungers to be seen as important and what better way to
> gain importance than by giving himself a title, gaining power, and
> using that power to oppress others?  He certainly cannot be ignored
> then.  Then, in the tradition of many power-hungry beings, he found
> that once he killed his father and grandparents, he hungered for
> more.  The more power he got, the more he craved.
>
> How does all this relate to the Fawkes wand choosing him?  I think
> that when he was 11, he may have been just as good a kid as Harry
> was.  If this is true, it makes sense to me that the wand with
> Fawkes's tail feather in it would have chosen him.  However, unlike
> Harry, he allows his latent anger over his childhood to overtake him
> and, ultimately, he chooses to take his intelligence and power and
> use it for evil purposes.  It's not necessarily that anyone is
> predestined to be chosen by a particular wand.  Rather, I think the
> wand is something like Sorting Hat in that it reads what is within
> that person and makes its choice accordingly.  I think that when
> Riddle points out his similarities to Harry, he is hinting at what
> Harry could become if Harry makes the same choices that he, Riddle,
> made.
>

I think harry could easily have become like voldemort having all the same
problems and dillemma's but that the current situation changed it because:
-when voldemort was young dark forces probably were less know, less used,
and thus less feared and less thought of as evil, if harry had gone evil
everyone would have immeadiathly try to change his course in the good way,
but in voldemorts time they probably didn't see the bad of it.
-when voldemort was sorted he was naturally sorted into slytherin because of
his ambition, later when harry got sorted harry was about to get sorted in
slytherin, only he didn't because he didn't want to be like
voldemort/malfoy. Voldemort didn't have an example of the evilness of evil
:) like harry, who faered becoming like voldemort, if voldemort would have
had an big example of an evil wizzard he would probably have taken the same
course as harry is taking now.

"Yoris"