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

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 110547

> Alla wrote Re: Pyschopath!Tom prognosis:
> "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

Hi Del, 
Good to see you back and challenging the school of thought on the 
baddies, as always. :D

My reply to what you say here:
This is *exactly* why we can't assume that Tom was already mentally 
non compus pre age 11. If impending canon entirely manages to remove 
responsibility for choice from the hands of eleven year old Tom then 
*Harry's* choices mean *nothing*. 

In fact I would go as far as to say that LV *is* compus mentis even 
now and is /not/ psychopathic. *Even* as far as to say that the 
intellectual standards held by psychoanalysis are /created/ to 
remove choice from the hands of the psychotic and replace it with 
blamelessness. _And_ challenging such notions *is* the emotive 
reasoning of the HP story period. If LV's character attacks the 
belief that environment and circumstance dominates the power of ones 
ability to reason and love, then so be it.
I think its a better message anyway.

Valky