Tom Riddle's Origins (was No Sex, Please)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 84227

> The Sergeant Majorette said:
> 
> 
> However, when you claim to be the most powerful Dark Wizard 
in the  world and that you're justified in killing hundreds of 
innocent  people and I paid 25 bucks for your latest adventure, I 
want to see  some serious motivation. I was way pi--, I mean 
annoyed -- when the  name that strikes terror into the hearts of 
wizards everywhere turned  out to be an anagram (could that be 
more pre-teen?) and now he wants  us to feel somthing 
because his mother was cruelly abandoned? See the 
 chaplain, Private. Sounds like a personal problem to me.
> 
> Now that Draco turns out to be an oxygen thief and a total 
waste of  other natural resources and Harry isn't cute anymore, I 
see troubled  times ahead for the franchise if Voldemort doesn't 
step up to the  plate and get more interesting.<<<

There are only so many ways in which people become 
disfunctional. Corny as it is to say it, healthy people crave 
relationships based on trust and mutual aid.

 If the ability to trust is damaged,  then the craving may turn to 
other things: drugs or alcohol or relationships based on power. 

Voldemort probably can't get over it, even if there were chaplains 
in the wizarding world; he's too damaged. But paranoids can 
make effective leaders; fear of a common enemy breaks down 
the barriers between people, and paranoids are very good at 
identifying enemies. Revealing Voldemort's childhood trauma 
shows the reader what sort of person he is, and why he craves 
power so much. 

What's more interesting than Voldemort is why Harry, who' s had 
the same experiences, doesn't turn out the same way. Granger's 
article said that Harry lives in fear of the Dursleys. But that's not 
true, IMO. Harry's never been afraid of the Durselys. They don't 
make his stomach clench or his heart race, he doesn't have 
nightmares about them or worry about what they'll do to him next, 
he doesn't invent rituals to placate them.

In fact, it's the other way around. It's the Dursleys whose 
adrenalin gets pumping around Harry, they angst constantly and 
they have rituals: don't answer questions: don't leave Harry by 
himself, don't say the 'M' word.

Pippin