LV never loved anyone

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 110358

> Now Andromeda:
>   I think it is actually a pretty common phenomenon, to some 
>extent,  for young children (not just infants) in orphanages. 
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>The article said that even modern orphanages, clean and decent-
>looking places, cannot escape the fact that children are being 
>raised by those who don't love them.  Riddle's orphanage was 
>undoubtedly not a very nice place.  Unlike Riddle, Harry had 15 
>months of parental love before being  taken away.  


Mandy here:
I'd like to add to that that although the Dursley's hated Harry, 
treated him very badly and resented his intrusion on their lives they 
did adopt him.  They took him in, they fed, clothed and schooled 
him.  Reluctantly, yes, but the fact that a family unit took Harry in 
means an awful lot.  It does send a message, a mixed one, but a 
message of belonging to a family and not just any family, their 
Harry's own family. No matter how Harry might dislike Petunia and she 
hates him, she is his mother's sister.  Harry can look at her and 
know that deep inside Petunia his mother blood runs.    

Tom, on the other hand, was not.  No one wanted him.  No one. Until 
he turned 11 and went to Hogwarts, but by then it was far too late. 
If Tom was in a terrible orphanage he may not have ever been touch, 
except to be punished.  Although you could argue the same of Harry, 
Harry could, and did witness love between the Dursleys everyday.  I 
imagine Tom just witnessed anger and rage.  

Mandy