Tom Riddle's Origins

[erinellii]

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 >The Sergeant Majorette says: 
> <<<Just because he doesn't have the same moral standards as you is 
no  reason to label him as "of unsound mind"...>>> Okay, now you're 
> messing with me.

Erin:
Yeah, maybe a little bit :-)  Fun, isn't it?


> The Sergeant Majorette says
>  Oh, come on! How sane can a person be who plans and organizes an 
evil empire? The legal definition of insanity, the whole business 
of "not guilty by reason of mental defect" is a crock of what my 
sister  refers to as "caca de vaca".

Erin:
Ok, now that is something I can disagree with.  There are people who 
seriously don't have the mental capacity to understand that they've 
commited crimes.  Tom Riddle is not one of those- on that we are 
agreed.  So what is your definition of insanity, exactly?  Just 
curious, would you say Hitler was insane?



> The Sergeant Majorette says
> Not to change the subject or anything, but what do you suppose they 
> do with the living soulless husks after the Dementor has kissed 
them?  Do they have to be fed, like Azkaban lifers?

Erin:  
That is what I think, that they live as vegetables pretty much. 
But I've seen people speculate on the list (sorry I don't remember 
who) that dementor victims become dementors themselves eventually- 
and that they are always searching for human emotions and souls to 
replace the ones they have lost.

Oh, wait, I think there was canon to back that up.  Something about 
if they are allowed, they will feed on you long enough to reduce you 
to something soul-less and evil like themselves.  Too lazy to look it 
up right now, but Lupin said it in the third book, I'm pretty sure.

Well, ok, if I'm not just making that up, I guess that means that 
without a soul, you are not just a vegetable- you are actively evil.  
So maybe I buy the turning into dementors thing after all.

Erin- not sure what she thinks without more canon