[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily Evans Potter relationship to Voldemort

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 58385

Tanya wrote:

And this, to me, is also a significant moment in Voldemort's
character. This isn't the 16-year-old Riddle that *knew* a mother's
sacrifice is a powerful countercharm. This is omnipotent,
indestructible, Dark Lord Voldemort, who doesn't even see a mother
before him.

I believe that this shows the full complete transformation of Tom
Riddle into Voldemort. There is no Riddle left anymore - by this
time, there is no humanity at all left in Voldemort.

Kelly followed up:

*cues Star Wars theme music*  This last line of yours is just too Obi-Wan.
He said the same about Vader.  And what do you know?  Anakin Skywalker was
still alive somewhere in all that machinery.  I know this isn't Star Wars,
but maybe bits of it can still apply.  I mean, JKR does take the time to
give us Tom Riddle's backstory.

On a little more serious note, though, you mention that Riddle never knew a
mother's love.  From what we've read, no one ever really cared about him.
Dippet just told him he'd have to go back to an orphanage where he could
more or less rot if Hogwarts was closed.  The people who work in orphanages
don't have time to develop deep, meaningful relationships with every single
child.  Tom Riddle has never, to our knowledge, been loved by anyone.  So it
doesn't surprise me that, in his conquest for world power, thinking about
love and a mother-child relationship gets lost in the shuffle.  As for no
humanity at all being left, we shall see.  Maybe that's part of what
happened during that ceremony when he came back.  Not only is he now mortal,
but maybe some of his humanity was restored to him through Harry's and
Peter's blood.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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