LV never loved anyone

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 110298


Hi Alla ! I *was* expecting an answer from you on that one :-)

Alla wrote :
"I know that you never give up on the most evil characters in
"Potterverse", but don't you think especially after that answer that
Voldie is a lost cause."

Del replies :
I never really had *hope* concerning LV. I was just trying to figure
him out. But I'm afraid this last piece of information only confused
me further. I agree with what you said later :
"I think possible mental illness sounds about right or maybe Tom was 
cursed right after he was born with inability to love?"
But that would make me defend him even more ! If Tom was either sick
or cursed, then he did *not* freely choose to become evil. If he is
*unable* to love, then he can't be blamed for hating. And most of all
: if he needed help and didn't get it, then he's not the only one
responsible for the existence of LV (could DD be reluctant to kill
*Tom* out of *guilt* ?).

But that would go against everything the HP books have taught us so
far : that we are all responsible for our choices, and that LV is
truly evil because he chose to be.

I really hate to criticise JKR, but I think she's failed to explain
and describe LV adequately, at least to me. I mean, he's supposed to be :
a) a typical overly-evil arch-villain 
b) a poor orphan kid with a tragic family history
*and*
c) an anomaly of Nature, in that he never cared for anyone, which is
pretty much impossible.

That's too much for one single character, especially one that gets so
little screen time and towards whom my emotions are supposed to be
clear-cut and simple. I can't make sense of him, and so I can't hate
him and be angry at him as I'm supposed to. 

Del