Dirty Harry/Clean Harry (Harry's good core)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 117512


Kelsey Dangelo wrote:
"I like your point about how Riddle wants to do evil, cruel things, to
be evil. I think that TR/Voldie is just evil. He likes it. He's
Harry's moral polar opposite. He chooses to be evil because that's
what he is. I think he enjoys it. It's his style. He enjoys being
powerful and hurting people and gaining things he wants. Voldie isn't
a misguided creature that thinks he's doing something good for
wizardkind (that job's reserved for Fudge). He's like Iago of
_Othello_. He's perfectly aware of a greater moral code; he just likes
to be bad. He's evil, he likes it, he's good at it, he has no excuses. "

Del replies :
I almost agree with you. The point I disagree with is "He's perfectly
aware of a greater moral code". In my idea, he's not. He's aware of a
*different* moral code, but I don't see that he ever realised that it
was better. In fact, it's rather the opposite : he regards those who
believe in that moral code to be inferiors. He seems to believe that
*his* moral code is better.

Kelsey wrote :
" Yes, that is sort of the point that I made elsewhere in that post.
Why is Voldie incapable of love? I just don't understand that. I don't
see how that is humanly possible. That's not the way things are in
real life. But that's what JKR says, so it must be so."

Del replies :
It *does* happen. Those people are psychopaths, or sociopaths. They
are rare, luckily, but they do exist. I've read up on them recently,
because of Tom Riddle, and it's chilling to see how much Tom resembles
real life sociopaths. I don't think it's just a coincidence : I
believe JKR did it intentionally.

This should reassure you on one point : Harry *cannot* become like LV,
because he "doesn't have what it takes" to be a sociopath. He could
become someone mean and cruel like Snape or Malfoy, but he could never
become LV.

Del