LV never loved anyone

[tylerswaxlion]

No: HPFGUIDX 110513

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> SSSusan wrote :
> > "it happened because Harry WANTED to make friends; he was OPEN to
> > exchanging affection.  He did not see affection as a weakness.  I
> > think you believe Tom was *incapable* of such openness, but I 
> > don't agree. "
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> But much of what we all learn--including language acquisition--is 
> done through *modeling*.  There *IS* an age at which learning in 
> general, languages in particular, is quicker:  in childhood.  But 
> one can learn at any age, and modeling is one of the chief ways of 
> doing so.  

Actually, when it comes to language, there is only a specific period 
of time when you can learn it.  If a child has never been spoken to 
in early childhood, that child will never learn to speak at all--any 
language.

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/pinker.langacq.html
"The chapter by Newport and Gleitman shows how sheer age seems to 
play an important role. Successful acquisition of language typically 
happens by 4 (as we shall see in the next section), is guaranteed 
for children up to the age of six, is steadily compromised from then 
until shortly after puberty, and is rare thereafter. Maturational 
changes in the brain, such as the decline in metabolic rate and 
number of neurons during the early school age years, and the 
bottoming out of the number of synapses and metabolic rate around 
puberty, are plausible causes. Thus, there may be a neurologically-
determined "critical period" for successful language acquisition, 
analogous to the critical periods documented in visual development 
in mammals and in the acquisition of songs by some birds." 


It happens with songbirds as well.  If a bird isn't taught it's 
native "song" in a specific time period, it will NEVER be able to 
sing the "correct" song.

So while you can learn an additional language at any age, albeit 
with difficulty, if you haven't learned the *concept* of language in 
infancy/early childhood, you never will.

The infant and child Tom Riddle was capable of love.  The adult--and 
probably the teen--Voldemort is not.

Tyler's Lion