The Time Room and fate of Voldemort

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 68200

Eric Oppen wrote:

>possible fate for Lord V-mort.  
> Basically,
> > it involves him being shoved bodily into one of those devices 
that 
> turned
> > the DE's head into a baby's head, and coming out of it as a baby.
<snip>
 Faced 
> with a
> > different life, being raised by loving surrogate parents, 
> this "Tom Riddle"
> > could become a real asset to the Wizarding world.

Emily responded:

> This  brings up the very interesting question of nature versus 
> nurture.  Do you really believe that Tom Riddle would get to start 
> over as a normal kid and not have the ambition and all the other 
> things that made him different from another kid who might have been 
> in the same situation.  Would you also deny him the truth about his 
> past, or subject him to the guilt that might follow the knowledge 
of 
> the truth? 


But we have to assume that not all Slytherns are evil. After all, the 
Sorting hat sees great ambition in Harry- but we're not thinking that 
that ambition will turn him evil. In fact, Harry's ambition actually 
becomes one of his greatest assests by allowing him to save everyone 
continually (perhaps up to but not including OoP when his 'saving 
people thing' actually hinders the cause of justice).

So, I will say that the personality characteristics of Voldemort 
shouldn't dictate his ultimate end. I do think the reason why he 
turned eveil was because of the family he was denied- and returning 
him to baby state and giving him a loving family who didn't treat him 
as a reject would stop those factors from turning him to the dark 
side.

But as to your question about denying him the truth of his past.... 
well, look at what happened to Harry when he found out the truth of 
his past and what it could mean for his future... It's kind of on the 
same level. But I would think that a person is not dictated by 
genetics, but by memory and experience- so even though good!Tom 
Riddle and Voldemort share the identical DNA, they would have 
different memories and hence be different people. Like identical 
twins- but not the same person.

~<(Laurasia)>~