LV never loved anyone

[tonks_op]

No: HPFGUIDX 110510

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...> 
wrote:
(snip)... When JKR says that LV has never loved anyone, we all 
assume (correctly, 
> IMNSHO) she means love for someone other than himself. After all, 
> although we use the word "love" when we talk about someone loving 
only 
> himself, it is a slightly different kind of love - but in fact 
quite 
> the opposite, since the love for other people usually involves 
> selflessness, love for oneself involves selfishness. However, she 
> *didn't* specify that "but himself" bit, which (knowing JKR, and 
> knowing this group, particularly our flying hedgehog section), 
could be 
> taken as a hidden clue. Conclussion: JKR's statement, I feel, 
doesn't 
> specify if Voldemort loves himself or not. Usually, her statement 
is 
> taken to mean that he only loved himself, but in a broader sense, 
she 
> could've meant he didn't even love himself....(snip)
> 
> Grey Wolf
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reply to Grey Wolf:

If Tom Riddle/LV is the extreme example of the consequences of a 
unloving childhood, and I think that he is, then if he was never 
loved, he can not love anyone, not even himself.  Grandiosity is not 
self love.

Tonks_op