Evil, and Stuff (was Re: Seeking: Is it meant to be a good thing?)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Angela Evans 
<sixhoursahead at y...> wrote:
> 
> On whether Voldemort could be redeemed:
>  "clicketykeys <clicketykeys at y...>" <clicketykeys at y...> wrote:
> 
> <<I think 
> Rowling has done a pretty good job of dehumanizing Voldemort.>>
> 
>  
> Angela wrote:
> EXCEPT FOR ONE THING: Voldemort does love his mother.

Me: Does he really? Dumbledore tells Harry that Voldemort doesn't 
understand love, especially (if I'm not mistaken) the love between 
mother and son. And altough Voldemort certainly seems to believe his 
mother loved his father, I'm not sure if *I* buy it. We're told 
Riddle was the last remaining descendant of Slytherin and Ron states 
at one point that "most wizards these days are half blood anyway, if 
we hadn't married Muggles, we would have died out." That statement 
seems to prove that even the so-called "pure families" including the 
Malfoy's, the Weasley's, and the Crouch's must have mixed their 
blood at some point if they are still around today. 

My theory: A relationship with a Muggle was simply the last 
possibility available to Tom's mother if she wanted to continue the 
Slytherin family name. BTW, I find it interesting that Tom Sr. never 
remarried - perhaps it was really Tom who had his heart broken? 
Perhaps he didn't even know he had a son?
-Tanya