[HPforGrownups] Voldemort and His Mom (formerly "Evil and Stuff")

[Twileen Janeen]

No: HPFGUIDX 48355

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

Now Me:

A big difference here is that Harry's mother died to
save Harry. Tom's mother died from weakness, her death
probably had a lot to do with the pregnancy and birth.
And when she died he had to grow up in a *muggle*
institution; a place that he hated.

We know that he blames his father, and he makes
speaches about his poor abandoned mother. But he could
just be using her for dynamics, to make what he says
more powerful. Chances are he holds a lot of hate for
her as well. She was too weak to be a mother to him.
She failed were muggle borns like Lily Potter could
easily have succeeded, had he not intervened.

-twileen


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