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[honeycakehorse03]

No: HPFGUIDX 57847

Ersatz Harry wrote:

>(1) This whole theory of Harry as Voldemort strikes me as, well, 
nuts.
> Not only do we have the various time travel problems and factual
>contradictions (is H/LV a Gryff or a Slyth?), 

We know from the books that Harry could have been a Slytherin, why 
couldn't Tom Riddle have been a Gryffindor? Perhaps the Sorting Hat 
gave him the same choice as Harry and he decided for Slytherin 
either a) because he didn't know about the stigma that comes with it 
(being from a Muggle orphanage he would be similarly clueless as 
Harry) or b) he wanted to be a Slytherin because he has heard about 
it (perhaps from students on the train) and thought that it would be 
better for him or c) he was indifferent and only choose Slytherin 
because he liked the name better or whatever other superficial 
reason you can come up with.

>but I think we'd be hard
>pressed to find any good in LV, though we can certainly find some
>faults in Harry.  

I agree that it would probably be hard to find any good in LV but 
the eleven-year old Tom Riddle *wasn't* Voldemort and that was when 
he perhaps made the choice about being either Gryffindor or 
Slytherin. After he became a Slytherin his anger at the world as 
being stigmatized as bad could have added to his decend towards 
evilness. 
I don't think that even if Harry is Voldemort or Voldemort Harry 
they would have had to follow the same path. As Dumbledore always 
says: Your choices are what make you and while Harry chose 
Gryffindor, Tom perhaps chose Slytherin and it only snowballed from 
there.
However, I'm not saying that all Slytherins have to be evil, but 
that in this certain person (Tom) the prejudices, crappy childhood, 
etc. were part of the reason he became evil. I don't think that the 
kid Tom Riddle was evil but that he developed to that during his 
school time. 

>(5) With the exception of Rita Skeeter, all of the significant
>malevolent (or malevolent-seeming) characters that I can think of 
are
>male.  

Well, for one this could be because most of the charcaters we know 
or that have any importance are male. I don't know the exact ratio 
but I think you'd hard pressed if you try to find more than five 
important females in the books so far. Naturally that would be true 
for the evil as well as the good side.
On the other hand, being evil is (from your list) closely associated 
with being a Death Eater or supporting Voldemort's ideas and somehow 
I just can't see Voldemort as seeing women as equals. The only 
female Death Eater that we know of is the woman in the pensieve (if 
she is Mrs. Lestrange), otherwise we have Mrs. Lestrange as another 
one. That would eliminate a lot of women from being "evil".

Sabrina