Pity for Voldemort

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 104996

Wanda wrote :
> One can pity, say, the 8-year old Tom Riddle, alone and abandoned in 
> a horrible orphanage - obviously he's not Voldemort THEN.  But at 
> some point he makes a decision:  "Evil, be thou my good," - doesn't 
> Satan say that in 'Paradise Lost'?  From that point, he's the enemy 
> of goodness.

Del replies :
I agree. But I believe that was quite some time after his school
years. Even when he released the Basilisk and killed Myrtle, or when
he killed his folks, I still believe he was redeemable, and was
suffering more than hating yet.

Wanda wrote :
> The only pity I can have for him then is sort of a retrospective pity
> - a "How could you have done this to yourself?" feeling about someone
> who didn't have to end up this way, but did.  It's more pity for the 
> lost Tom Riddle who might have been than for Voldemort himself.

Del replies :
Oops, I thought that was obviously what I meant, but I must have
forgotten to mention it. That's why I use the name Tom, see : because
I'm speaking of the Tom *before* LV. And I believe that if Harry ever
managed to have pity on that Tom, it might destabilize LV, because the
whole reason for the existence of LV is pretty much that Tom felt
unloved and unwanted.

Del