Voldemort and His Mom (formerly "Evil and Stuff")

[Strix <kethlenda@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48295

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "probonoprobono <
probono at r...>" <probono at r...> wrote:


> > Angela wrote:
> > EXCEPT FOR ONE THING: Voldemort does love his mother.

And Tanya wrote:
 
> 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. 

My comments:
I think I can make sense of the idea that he loves his mother and 
at the same time doesn't really understand love.  He idealizes 
her; he has made her into this saintly martyr in his head.  The 
poor innocent sweet perfect witch who was dumped by an icky 
nasty Muggle and died bearing him.  It's very easy to idealize, 
and to feel an almost religious devotion toward, someone you 
never truly know deeply.  He has her on a pedestal, but doesn't 
really understand how to love and care about an ordinary, flawed 
human being, year in and year out, through thick and thin, etc.

Strix