Child Sociopaths

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 151189

Jen:
"Jen: JKR clearly said Riddle was not born evil, but that he has 
never known love. In Potterverse that is the greatest evil of all 
from what I can tell. <snip>

I often wonder why JKR presented boy Riddle the way she did, as not 
only unloved but unlovable from the start. Even as a baby he didn't 
ask for or likely receive much attention because he was 'odd'. 
Merope abandoning him may have started the process of Tom being 
unloved, but it didn't end there. The fault for being unloved as a 
baby cannot lie with a baby any more than Petunia finding Harry
unlovable lies with him as a 15-month old. <snip>"


BAW:
What reaction would one have if one had met Ted Bundy, or Charles 
Manson, or Ed Gein, or Casey Ramirez, or Jeff Dahlmer, et al?  
Would they have been any less 'off' than Tommy Riddle?