Villains in potterverse

[frugalarugala]

No: HPFGUIDX 116181


Kim wrote:
> 
> 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.
  
Frugala again: 
I don't think JKR is as straight-forward as to give us the big 
showdown fight what we've all been led expect. Nor does a *fight* 
really show us the higher road that I think the good guys need (from 
a storytelling point-of-veiw) to take. A straight-forward fight would 
almost be anti-climatic. I'd be terribly disapointed if it's just 
face-off, zap, done. 

But aside from that, I just think that she's writing a story that's 
really about hate, and where it comes from. I think she's 
demonstrating that in-groups + out-groups = de-humanizing people = 
bigotry. And Voldemort is *literally* trying to de-humanize himself. 
I think the way to reverse that equation is going to have to be a key 
to the end of Voldemort.