Why TR went bad( WAS Re: Yo, Lollipopsers! Why did TR go bad?)

[jrober4211]

No: HPFGUIDX 34937

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "tex23236" <jbryson at r...> wrote:
> Was it because of Moaning Myrtle?
> 
> I ask this as I realize the living Myrtle was @ Hogwarts when TR
> was there.  
> 
> Was he just pranking around with the Chamber of  Secrets thing 
> until the Basilisk killed Myrtle? 
> 
> Was Myrtle his unrequited love? 
> 
> Did  Olive Hornby give Myrtle so much pain because she was 
> jealous of TR's love?
> 
> Was TR driven into darkness from guilt over Myrtle's death?
> 
> Where was the tunnel to the Chamber before Hogwarts got indoor
> plumbing?
> 
> I doubt Myrtle had any kind of influence on TR what-so-ever.As for 
Olive Hornby,  Myrtle just happened to be an easy target to pick on 
due to her physical appearance and lack of social skills. I was 
wondering if Myrtle was one of those wizards that had muggle parents, 
since that is the targets TR sought out for the basilisc. TR, even at 
an early age, was power hungry, and opening the CoS was deliberate on 
his part. I don't think he really thought about the consequences of 
creating havoc at Hogwarts at that early age, as he was devastated 
when he was told he would have to return to the orphanage, as 
Hogwarts was closing, until the monster was rounded up and the CoS 
was closed, which led to his framing Hagrid for the crime. As for the 
plumbing at Hogwarts: The pipes that the basilisc used were always 
there. Indoor plumbing has been a civilized concept since the Roman 
age which predates the 1000 years that Hogwarts has been open.So I 
would say that Myrtle's bathroom has probably always been there, but 
has more than likely been updated over the millineum, thus no one 
would really think anything of a large pipe in the wall in an already 
existing bathroom.
> 
The impression I get from the background story we get for TR is that 
TR resents all muggles because of the way his father treated his 
mother when he found out she was a witch, then had him put in an 
orphanage after he was born. Unlike Harry, he chose to react 
negatively to his situation, whereas Harry took a different path. 
Considering that personality traits are somewhat inherited, I can see 
why TR would turn bad as his father and the Riddle family were not 
very well liked in muggle society and were considered complete *&*-
holes by the town folk. To my knowledge of canon, and what little we 
know of the Potter family, they were likable people, and probably 
more emotionally resilient. As for the Evan's, I think Petunia was 
the only narrow minded, petty one in Lily's family as her parents 
were proud of Lily's abilities. Then you have to look at propensity 
as TR was sorted into Slytherin because he has that trait of being 
willing to do "whatever it takes to succeed" whereas Harry who had 
several traits that made it hard for the sorting hat to find a house 
for him to go in. Harry , more or less, chose Gryffindor for himself 
as he was more ethically grounded,( at age 11, it probably had more 
to do with the fact that Ron and Hagrid had already told him negative 
things about Slytherin, and Malfoy, whom he did not like, was in 
Slytherin) 

Jo Ellen