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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 110560

SSSusan:
> > One more on this, before I pack it in.  This may well be the 
> crux of  it, Julie.  Since JKR called him a psychopath, then the 
> question is whether JKR's use of "psychopath" coincides with 
> the clinical  view...and if it does, then why did she also say he 
> made the "wrong  choices"??

Pippin: 
> There may be a distinction  between Quirrell, who let himself be 
> persuaded that  there is no good and evil, only power, and 
> Voldemort, who tells the DE's that Quirrell was "young, foolish, 
> gullible." Voldemort may well be incapable of internalizing good 
> and evil,  but I think he knows perfectly well what his society 
> considers good and evil. He has chosen evil because he 
> believes it is *stronger* --
> 
> "Let's match the powers of Lord Voldemort, Heir of Salazar 
> Slytherin, against famous Harry Potter and the best weapons 
> Dumbledore can give him...." CoS ch 17
> 
> and that  will turn out to be the wrong choice because, in JKR's 
> world, at least, it's not stronger. 


SSSusan:
Do you mean JKR may have meant that his choice was not so much 
*morally* wrong as *tactically* wrong?  

Siriusly Snapey Susan