LV never loved anyone

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 110627

Tyler's Lion:
> If no one ever loved Tom Riddle as an infant, if no one around Baby!
> Tom was ever shown love, if he were raised in such an antiseptic, 
> completely unemotional environment, I believe it is perfectly 
> logical to assume he'd have no clue about love and emotional 
> attachment.  And that, later in life, he would be incapable of 
> understanding it as more than an intellectual concept, i.e., as a 
> weakness to exploit in others.


SSSusan:
Why assume it's a completely antiseptic & unemotional environment?  
It's not just Tom & a [possibly] indifferent staff living there.  
It's Tom and some additional number of orphans and a [possibly] 
indifferent staff.  We don't know the rules for admittance--infants 
only? orphans of any age?  Unless it's the former, we've got some 
additional factors to consider.  

Let's say some children, like Baby Harry at 15 mths., had been placed 
in this orphanage with others who'd been there since birth.  Would 
the children-who-once-knew-love be any kind of influence on their 
peers as they grew up?  Or those children who had a 
different "makeup" than Tom did, who managed to learn the capacity 
for emotional attachment?  I think it's quite reasonable to assume 
there were influences such as these present, and I think there's no 
reason to suspect that NONE of these children in the orphanage 
learned to make attachments.  Perhaps those attachments weren't with 
staff but were with each other.  Tom would've had those relationships 
available to him or to model.


> > SSSusan:
> > The concept of language and the concept of love aren't the same.  
> > One revolves around emotion, whereas the other revolves around 
> > cognition.  

Tyler's Lion:
> And Tom doesn't feel that emotion per JKR.  And never has.  
> Why would emotion be so very different from language or sight?  
> Don't you believe emotion occurs in the brain?  How do you suppose 
> Tom was to learn it?


SSSusan:
Absolutely I believe that different parts of the brain work in 
different ways.  As for how Tom was to learn it, please look to my 
paragraphs above.

Siriusly Snapey Susan