[HPforGrownups] LV's mudblood ancestry

[Odile Falaise]

No: HPFGUIDX 57095


--- waters_law wrote:
<<Actually, I find LV's mudblood "taint" to be one of
the things that make him a more realistic character. 
Historically, evildoers are often motivated by the
percieved need to obliterate a portion of  themselves.
 For example, Hitler is believed to have been
motivated by his fear that he was in fact of Jewish
descent.  I also just read a book about Manson which
stated that there was some indication that he had an
African American ancestor, making his desire to start
a race war rather ironic.> > 

Hi Everyone,  I'm new to the Group {{waves}} and
really glad to have joined.  That said, forgive me if
the following has already been addressed, but I would
be very interested to learn your thoughts.

The motivation of Tom Riddle/Voldemort is something
that intrigues me as well.  But I am having a really
hard time with that of Lucius Malfoy and the other
Death Eaters: if Mudbloods (and all those they
consider inferior to them) are so repulsive to them,
then why are they devoted to someone with this
background?

I was thinking that maybe they are just not aware that
LV is/was really Tom Riddle, son of a Muggle, but
surely Lucius knew because he had Tom's diary in his
possession in CoS.

And I wish I could find the reference in the canon
(sorry) but I recall reading that some of Tom Riddle's
friends started calling him "Lord Voldemort" while he
was still a student at Hogwarts - surely his fellow
students would have known his background, that when
not in school he had to stay at a Muggle orphanage?

As to Hitler's and Manson's heritage, I agree (though
the details I read are much more sordid than what was
written above!) that it must have motivated them to
"obliterate a part of themselves," but their followers
-- the other Nazis and The Family, respectively --
didn't know anything about their "family secrets," did
they?



Odile
who digs Ickle Drackykins, even though he is an
insufferable git  ^_^