The power LV knows not

[davewitley]

No: HPFGUIDX 93911

Del wrote:
> 
> Tom Riddle was a half-blood raised in a Muggle orphanage, who 
ended 
> up in Slytherin.
> 
> Is it possible that he never received any love from anyone ?
> 
> That would explain why Harry has a power that LV doesn't know : 
not 
> because Harry has exceptionally a lot of love, but simply because 
LV 
> never received any.
> 
> Am I completely crazy, or is it worth exposing my ideas supporting 
> this theory, and my suppositions about the future of the War ?

I think it is definitely worth exposing your ideas.

Like Melanie, I'm inclined myself to the view that Riddle did know 
love and decided, at some level, to reject it and, having rejected 
it, now cannot understand it.

The sort of scenario I envisage is that in some form love - whether 
from his mother or from Dumbledore or someone else - eventually 
required that he give up his anger and hatred for his father.  This 
he refused to do, and so he went down the path of Muggle-hating 
(because his father was a Muggle) and immortality seeking (because 
it emphasises the distinctness of wizards and psychologically 
reverses his mother's fate).

He is very careful in the graveyard scene to belittle his new 
dependence on his 'useful/useless' father, but of course in doing so 
he does draw attention to it.

David