Source of LV's evil nature

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 113719

Carol responds:
"Withholding information is not the same as lying."

DuffyPoo:
Really?  It is where I live.  It is called a lie of omission.  Try withholding information from the police sometime and see what they think.  Riddle, Sr. was deceived, and their relationship was built upon that deception for whatever length of time.  Mrs. R. knew  that her boyfriend/fiance/husband "didn't like magic" yet she pretended to not be a witch until after she trapped him in a marriage.  She knew she had to lie in order to get him to love her as she loved him.  Think about the young lady who tells her boyfriend she's pregnant so he will marry her, hoping to get pregnant during the honeymoon to cover up her deception.

Carol said:
"And I disagree in any case that her deception was more immoral than
abandoning a pregnant wife and her innocent child. (Who knows what Tom
Riddle might have become if his father had accepted his own
responsibility and better still, had loved his son.) And after his
wife died, shouldn't he have taken care of their child in any case,
whether or not that child had magical powers, rather than dumping him
in a Muggle orphanage?"

DuffyPoo again:
Quoting what I've already posted elsewhere - that we have know way of knowing if Riddle, Sr even knew his wife was pregnant when he left, or, for that matter, if she knew herself.

>>I don't see that his father abandoned TR at all, except in TR's mind.  Divorce/separation isn't ususally about the kids but about the adults in the situation.  Did Riddle, Sr. even know his wife was pregnant or had she just told him she was a witch?  Did she even know that she was pregnant, at the time of the magical revelation?  That's the real question, especially since we have no idea where she lived from the time Riddle, Sr left her, until TMR was born and he was placed in an orphanage  LV says "and she died giving birth to me, leaving me to be raised in a Muggle orphanage."  TMR only assumes he was abandoned because he has no father in the picture.  Riddle, Sr may never have known a baby was on the way/born, until TR, at 18 or so, walked into the house in Little Hangleton.  Do you think TMR was going to listen to Dad, at that point, say 'I didn't abandon you, I didn't even know she was pregnant. I left because she lied to me!'  <<

Carol said:
"If he loved her enough to marry her, he
should have kept on loving her after he found out she was a witch.  Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

DuffyPoo:
Utopia.  There is truly no indication that Riddle, Sr, stopped loving his wife, he just could not live with the deception.  Love or not, if I found out my DH was lying to me in the way say, Mark Hacking had been lying to his wife, he'd be on the street in a heartbeat.  I wouldn't stop loving him, but I certainly would stop living with him.

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