[HPforGrownups] Voldemort good/bad. Was: Twisted Irony

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 138733

Gatta wrote:
> Interesting sideline here: See Dr. Robert Hare on whether psychopaths
> are born or made. (He maintains that the basic psychopathic
> personality is inborn, but its manifestation is affected by nurture.)

When I first read about the circumstances of Voldemort's upbringing, I had
this kind of mental picture (I've read similar articles elsewhere)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,933784,00.html

The orphanage described in HBP doesn't sound _quite_ as bad as that, but if
there had been any possibility of deflecting his psychopathy, it doesn't
sound like the kind of environment to do it.

hwyl

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