Power vs Morality (was LV never loved anyone)

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 110344

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
<big snip>
> We know he could *pretend* to be a good person while at Hogwarts :
> everyone (except DD) was impressed by him, he was made Prefect and
> Head Boy, he received an award, and so on. He seemed to have put up 
a
> good pretence to be a good boy, when in fact he despised that role.
> But I find this quite scary, because it means that by the age of 11 
he
> was already so damaged that he could not enjoy the rewards that 
being
> a good boy can bring you : attention, favours, honours and so on. He
> seemed to have been past that already. It seems he was already
> thinking that the only thing that matters is *power*.
<snip>
> Del, who thinks that LV is a typical example of what happens when 
raw
> power is not being channelled into good works by constant care and
> attention, whether it be in people or in nuclear power plants.

Now AmanitaMuscaria : Hmmm - who else do we know of who doesn't even 
pretend to be good, and yet was made a prefect? Draco doesn't even 
have the excuse of being in an orphanage to excuse his spite. 
Admittedly, he's not shown himself to be particularly evil, as far as 
we know, just spiteful.
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria