The power LV knows not

[tipgardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 93943

"davewitley" wrote:
> 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.

I don't see real textual evidence for this.  Also, to reject 
something, doesn't a person of LV's intelligence usually understand 
it first?  What if it were useful to him?

> 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).

I like the muggle hating based on his hatred of his father.  However, 
I don't see Dumbledore having offered love to Tom Riddle.  In their 
only interaction in CoS, we see Dumbledore being wary of Tom but 
being unable to prove anything.  Harly a loving act, though perhaps a 
respectful and mentoring act.

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