Pity for Voldemort

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 104833

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...>
wrote:

> 
> Third, all the time he spends looking for the CoS makes me feel that
> he was craving a feeling of *belonging*, of *family*. His own family
> ceased to exist before he was even born, but Slytherin is willing to
> take him on as his Heir.
> 
I got that same feeling in GoF, too, when Voldemort was talking to
Harry in the graveyard, awaiting the arrival of the DEs.  As he's
talking about his fool of a muggle father, he's pacing about and
studying the surroundings, NOT looking at Harry.  It finally struck me
what he was looking at - the gravestones.  It's a FAMILY plot, it's
not just his father buried there.  He's looking at generations of
Riddles all around him - this was his family, and this might be the
first time he's ever been so close to them.  But his choice has
already been made - as the DEs approach, he announces "Here is my true
family" (book not handy, unfortunately, so I might have the wording a
bit wrong).  I think that this is another similarity between Harry and
TR - the fact that they've both been robbed of a family of their own,
and how they respond to that.

Wanda