Harry v. Tom (was: LV never loved anyone)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 110521

Alla wrote :
"Actually, Del, I hope never to get into fight with you :o), but I 
won't expect you to control your impulses when your loved one was 
just killed in front of you. (May such thing never ever happen to  you)."

Del wrote :
As a matter of fact, you'd be better off getting in a fight with me
than with many other people, precisely because I've learned a long
time ago (age 9) that I had very strong destructive impulses when I
got mad, so I've been learning to control them ever since. It's *real
hard* to enrage me. Though it could still happen if someone touched my
husband or my baby, I guess.

Alla wrote :
"I will not even expect even Tom to do so at the heat of the moment. I
expect him to control his rages when he calmed down."

Del replies :
The problem with psychopaths is that they don't necessarily ever calm
down. Or else their anger might abate for a while, but not necessarily
their hatred.

Alla wrote :
"And yes, I agree with Susan the fact that Harry did not have enough 
hate even at such moment to crucio Bella speaks volumes to me. His 
Crucio did not work for a reason, you know, not by accident."

Del replies :
Oh, I agree completely that Harry did not (thankfully) have what it
takes to make the Cruciatus curse work. But it doesn't change the fact
that he did not master his impulse to use an Unforgivable, which was
my original point. His impulse was wrong, though understandable, and
yet Harry didn't control it. A very human thing to do, especially at
age 15.

Alla wrote :
"Well, such person as you describe should be put into psychiatric
clinic and never EVER allowed to leave it, IMO. Of course such person
cannot control anything."

Del replies :
Exactly ! Tom should NEVER have been allowed to go to Hogwarts. He was
already a psychopath in urgent need of heavy psychiatric help by the
age of 11, and Hogwarts only provided him with bigger and better guns
than he could ever have dreamed of. Add to that the highly explosive
discovery of his inheritance from Slytherin, and the whole mixture was
BOUND to explode.

Del