[HPforGrownups] Re: Do you think there is more to Voldie's story?

[Silverthorne]

No: HPFGUIDX 97702

Susan (teilani) who really hopes the theories re:ESE!Lupin are wrong.

So sorry to quote myself, but I am also interested in how, exactly, LV came to persecute m%^bloods.  I am sure we'll find this out by the end, but I'd like speculatory comments.  And like I have said, 
perhaps it's not love, but mercy that is his undoing.


{Silverthorne}

IIRC, Tom's hatred of muggles started when his father abandoned Tom's witch mother (or is the father the wizard, and mum the muggle? I can't recall, but I do think it's the former, and that the Riddles are Muggles). That in and of itself would have been enough, I think. 

"Mudbloods" (forgive the use, folks, please. Howlers will be given to the siamese to chew on), by his own father's example, are prejudiced, dishonorable and downright cruel--he abandoned them both as soon as he found out about Tom's mother's witch abilities. 

Remember, Father and grandparents were the first to go at Tom's hands--a fitting end, no doubt in Tom's mind, for a bunch of rich, elitist, prejudiced snobs who didn't even have an ounce of magical power to their name.

And then, of course, by comparison, wizarding folks would seem superior...especially pure bloods with no trace of those treacherous Muggle genetics....


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