Source of LV's evil nature

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 113357

Angie
"I keep wondering why LV is so evil.  I mean, OK, his Muggle dad 
rejected his mother because she was a witch, but is that really a 
sufficient reason to totally go off the deep end and want to wipe out 
everyone who is not pure blood (which, ironically, would include LV 
himself)?"

DuffyPoo - who is not much of a swimmer but I'll join you anyway! ;-)

Especially since, IMO, TR's mother is much more in the wrong, yet TR doesn't seem to include her in his wrath.  He appears to hold her in higher regard in this situation. Considering that she deceived Riddle, Sr for at the least, some weeks and at the most, possibly a couple years, then once they were married, and she was pregnant, she informed her Dear Hubby that 'oh, by the way, I'm a witch and I've been lying to you for all this time.'  LV, in GoF, says "My father lived there. My mother, a witch who lived here in this village, fell in love with him.  But he abandoned her when she told him what she was.... he didn't like magic, my father ..."  To TR the proof that Riddle, Sr didn't like magic is simply that he abandoned his wife when he found out she was a witch, but he doesn't take into account that the witch had been deceitful to the husband.  What I see is not so much a man who disliked magic (which he may well have), but one who didn't appreciate being lied to for whatever length of time is in question.  


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