Please, no Voldemort redemption!

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No: HPFGUIDX 81756

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Yahtzee63 at a... wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 9/27/03 4:22:31 AM, 
HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:
> 
> 
> > the Dark Lord simply ceases to exist and
> > die on his own if Harry manages to make Tom Riddle understand, 
and possibly
> > even feel, love.
> > 
> > 
> I definitely see the storytelling merit of what you're talking 
about here, 
> but I have to say, I hope like crazy that the end of Voldemort 
doesn't involve 
> Voldemort understanding love, feeling love, anything like that. 
Sometimes 
> there's a place for the mellowing and deepening of the villain, 
but sometimes 
> there's not: "Lord of the Rings" would be awful if, at the end, 
Frodo and Sam 
> figured out that Saruman really had a terrible childhood. And I 
think in some ways 
> Voldemort fulfills that kind of role in the HP books -- he's there 
as a force, 
> more than as a character, and the redemptions or damnations that 
matter are 
> those of the characters affected by this pure evil.
> 
> I think the idea of Harry showing Voldemort mercy has a little 
more merit -- 
> it would be about Harry, not about Voldemort, and it would be 
something 
> profoundly unexpected. But I am really hoping we don't learn a lot 
about Tom 
> Riddle's pain. I am heartless and wicked, and I don't care about 
Tom Riddle's pain. I 
> want the books really invested in the changes within Harry and 
Snape and 
> Lupin and Hermione, not Lord Voldemort.
> 
> 
> 
> Yahtzee
> 
> 
I tend to agree with this, Voldemort feeling love by way of Tom 
Riddle I don't understand. How would we be able to see how Tom 
Riddle life was before or to try to affect how he feels love. That's 
not going to happen, and the books, are written in Harry's POV. so 
how could harry see all of this and experience all of this when it 
would have to be Tom's point of view not harry's. I am not sure that 
I would have read all the books and in the end see how Voldemort 
feels love and how things could have changed if he had love in his 
life before attending Hogwarts. That to me would be wrong. We all 
read the books to see what happens to Harry. How people around Harry 
change and how Harry changes. I do want to add that to some extent 
that Harry's life would have been better if he felt love in his 
childhood. Would harry have been a pampered prince on his first day 
of Hogwarts, if his parents had lived? Even one parent? Someone to 
care for him and love him? I believe he would not only be pampered, 
but down right evil about it. Harry growing up with every one acting 
like he saved the Wizarding World and how good he is. He would have 
walked into Hogwarts acting like he owned the place because he 
defeated the Dark Lord. But given the facts of the matter. Harry is 
not a spoiled child, he is not a Christ figure (to some of us), and 
he is growing up with an evil man attempting to kill him every 
chance he gets. Hell IMO, harry is just about as normal now as he 
was the day he started Hogwarts, more so with the stress of worrying 
whether Voldemort will find and kill him. Lori