LV never loved anyone

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 110470

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

> 
> I really hope JKR will manage to convey to me why LV is so 
despicable, because right now I can't see him that way. Horrible 
and dangerous, yes. But despicable, no. I see him as a typical 
victim-turned-bully. He's not Tom anymore, but if Tom had had a 
better life, LV would never have been created : the two can't be 
separated. And I *do* pity the Tom we know for now.
> 

Pippin:
I don't see pitiable and despicable as mutually exclusive. It is a 
sort of hate the sin and love the sinner kind of thing.

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2000/0800-ew-jensen.ht
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Interviewer:
You referred to the darkness in your books, and there's been a 
lot of talk and even concern over that. 

JKR:
You have a choice when you're going to introduce a very evil 
character. You can dress a guy up with loads of ammunition, put 
a black Stetson on him, and say, "Bad guy. Shoot him." I'm 
writing about shades of evil. You have Voldemort, a raging 
psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other 
people's suffering, and there are people like that in the world. But 
then you have Wormtail, who out of cowardice will stand in the 
shadow of the strongest person. What's very important for me is 
when Dumbledore says that you have to choose between what 
is right and what is easy. This is the setup for the next three 
books. All of them are going to have to choose, because what is 
easy is often not right. 

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Pippin