[HPforGrownups] Re: Villains in potterverse

[kim reynolds]

No: HPFGUIDX 116178

Frugalarugala wrote:
 
... I think Tom Riddle was scary. Very scary. And here, IMHO, is why:   No one thinks that they're evil. Evil is too nebulous a trait to yourself in a serious way. It's a trait that we apply to Others, 'Others' with a capital 'O', as in not us, not connected with us, not of us... <snip>

>[Signed] Frugalarugala, who truly hopes that the series ends with something to do with finding the Tom Riddle in the self-de-humanizing Voldemort<<

Frugalarugala:

I agreed with most of the rest of your post, but left out most here to focus on your sign-off which was intriguing.  Did you mean that you're hoping that Voldemort will be able to find his lost humanity by finding his inner Tom Riddle, that is, the Tom Riddle who may have been born with the potential for goodness like any other child?  If so, that's what I keep hoping too. It's far-fetched, I realize.  Else why was Tom Riddle's wand the alternate of Harry's?  If anybody's a real "good guy" IMO, Fawkes is.  So why would the only other feather that Fawkes donated to a wand be in the wand of Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort?  I mean, in the hands of a real baddie like LV, Fawkes's feather ought to explode or something.   Teenage TR was definitely on the road to evilhood (or already there) but maybe the child TR wasn't so bad.  And the phoenix is a symbol of rebirth and redemption after all.

Kim   
 

		
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