LV never loved anyone

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 110466

SSSusan wrote :
"it is possible that these children can show no attachment, empathy or
bond to another whatsoever.

**BUT**, I'd like to go back to what I said in my first response to 
your first post in this thread.  Here's what I said then:  "*I* took
what JKR said as meaning that Tom, once capable/old enough/able to 
choose, never *chose* to love another.""

Del replies :
But if Tom never experienced love, then how could he ever become
capable of choosing to love ??

Imagine a 11-year-old boy who's only been given fries all his life.
Fries are the only food he knows to eat when he's hungry. So now
you're walking through town with him and lunch hour comes. The kid is
hungry. You tell him that he can choose between a serving of fries at
the stand 3 feet away, or vegetables and cookies in the shop on the
other side of the big busy street. What is the kid going to choose ?
Fries, right ? Now, how fair would it be to scold him for not choosing
to cross the street to go and get vegetables and cookies ?? *Why*
would he choose to do that ??

If Tom truly never loved, then he was *never* able to choose to love.
He would have needed *a lot* of care and attention and teaching, to
learn that love is something worth looking for, and *how* to get to
experience it. But knowing the WW as we do, I doubt anyone took the
time and effort to do that. Tom was on his own, and he just didn't
grasp the concept of love, nor could he see the point of it. Even
decades later, he still thought that Lily was just being *silly* for
risking her life in order to save her baby : that shows how much he's
alien to the whole concept of love.

I wish JKR hadn't answered that question so thoroughly. A nice little
no would have been enough, and nowhere so disturbing.

Del