Voldemort....muggle...hmmm

[Monita]

No: HPFGUIDX 57006

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <c4bchief at y...> wrote:
> James Said:
>  Okay... Voldie has a muggle father- tom riddle, and a witch 
> mother... doesnt that make him somewhat of a mudblood because he is 
> half and half? So that would mean he isnt pure-blood...shouldn't he 
> be killing himself then>?
> 
> JOe said:
> But yes,  You are correct that he's not a pureblood.  So it is 
>funny that he hates those like him and those of muggle blood.


Valk Says:
I do believe that "Voldie" explains himself per se by his insistence 
that it is a terrible injustice that the Heir of Slytherin was born a 
Half Blood. <COS> and further he reinforces his loathing of the 
Muggle kind with his tragic story of abandonment and discrimination 
on the part of his Muggle Father. Voldemort is quite mentally 
unstable and I believe that in a way this character actually believes 
that he has disinherited himself from his muggle father. Perhaps he 
even conjured some actual ritual disinheritance? In any case he 
openly rejects his muggle identity and so in some way satisfies a 
criteria of Wizard purity. By proxy a lack of identification with the 
muggle world he is less a muggleblood?
TheValk


Footnote: NB the term "deliberate error" quote JK Rowling in an 
online chat interview. <please ask if you want the link> She used 
this to describe an error pointed out to her, by one of this very 
group's members. Was Voldemort a descendent or ancestor of Salazar 
Slytherin? I will quote Ollivander here to make my point more 
relevant. "He who must not be named did GREAT things.... Terrible, 
Yes.. But GREAT." Was he the ancestor or the descendent?
Is the House of Slytherin one very large circle created by Voldemort?
Spanning ages and time beyond the present reckoning of inexperienced 
wizards like Harry........... hmmmm now I should exit I am getting 
too involved in the Wizard World.