[HPforGrownups] Levels and contradictions in JKR's writing ( was Re: It's over, Snape is evil )

[Paula "Elanor Pam"]

No: HPFGUIDX 138332

From: "lupinlore"

>Sienna makes a marvelous and telling point in her
early comments about Voldemort.  We have had an emphasis on the
importance of choice and JKR's statements about how no one is born
evil.  But in Voldemort we have a character who seems, from all
evidence and appearances, to be genetically evil, a corrupt product
of a degenerate and inbred family.  Furthermore Dumbledore, the very
character who is associated with statements about the power of choice
and the importance of trust, seems to relate to him from the very
first as a dangerous and deeply flawed child, a child who is in some
way corrupt in his very essence.  In other words, we have a powerful
and glaring contradiction woven into the basic fabric of the
narrative, in which choice and trust is emphasized but the main
villain is a monster from birth, the son of a poisoned bloodline.<


Elanor Pam:

Actually, what I see is that Voldemort had problems feeling empathy,
probably slightly autistic in nature. But that doesn't mean that, in the
right place and with the right guidance, he wouldn't be salvageable. An
orphanage is surely swarming with bullies - and his choice was either be the
bully or be bullied. Not having had any parents to teach him about treating
other people well or turning the other cheek, why would he choose to be
stomped on? He would look out for himself, and only himself. I suppose he
started to like the feeling of superiority and empowerment that comes from
being feared by others, and fed it by lashing out and increasing that fear.
That is the main essence of a bully, and that's pretty much what Voldemort
is: a childish little bully, only with way too much powers.

Now, maybe if he'd been raised in a magical family, a NORMAL magical family,
with sane parents, he'd have ended up Minister of Magic.

Now that's a scary thought.



Elanor Pam


	
	
		
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