LV never loved anyone

[tylerswaxlion]

No: HPFGUIDX 110671

> SSSusan:
> Why assume it's a completely antiseptic & unemotional environment? 

Because Tom never learned to love.  JKR says he never loved anyone.  
I want to believe that Baby!Tom was a normal human (well, wizard) 
capable of love--babies aren't evil.  Children want to be loved.

Yet Tom never loved anyone.  

They may have been abusive, but I'd rather not imagine people being 
cruel to infants.

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> 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?

This is exactly what I suggest in the other post for why there may 
or may not be more emotionally damaged orphans from the same 
facility.  

> 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.
 
If they were available, he didn't take advantage of these 
opportunities because HE NEVER LOVED ANYONE.  He didn't have those 
attachments, if they were available.  He didn't learn love from his 
peers b/c we know HE NEVER LOVED ANYONE.  He didn't learn it in 
primary school, either.

I condemn the orphanage b/c it had him as an infant, and infants 
can't do anything.  They are completely dependent on others.  I 
don't think you can hold a baby responsible for forming a 
relationship. Babies WANT to love people, and it's not hard to get 
them to love you.

To be honest, I don't really care about the orphanage; it's details 
are not important and only guesses anyway.  JKR has written and told 
us that Riddle never loved anyone.  Harry, on the other hand, was 
loved.  I think that's going to make all the difference.

Tyler's Lion