Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

[mmmwintersteiger]

No: HPFGUIDX 147571

>Renee:
>For Voldemort is a riddle. You say he is without humanity. As he's 
not
> literally the devil and was definitely born human, the question is 
>why he lost this humanity. We know how: by murdering and thereby 
>splitting his soul. But that doesn't explain what led to it....HBP 
>goes to great lengths to show him as a person, so we're apparently 
>meant to see him as such.

Maybe I am mis-reading but I didn't interpret the pensieve "visits" 
as showing LV's "humanity".  I more interpreted them as showing 
weaknesses, little nuances in his past that may make him vulnerable 
to attack later.  I am agreed on the fact that more backstory on why 
LV lost all his humanity (if he ever had any) is needed, and 
hopefully provided in book 7, however even in the scene at the 
orphanage we see that early on LV was cruel and almost (forgive me 
for saying it but) inhumane.  He seems to kill animals and traumatize 
younger children for revenge and his own pleasure.  JKR also alludes 
(IMO) to a large amount of in-breeding in the Slytherin line which 
may have caused all the worst characteristics of generations to be 
manifested in LV.  Tom Riddle Sr doesn't seem to have the best genes 
either-he seems cruel and arrogant in the brief moments we are privy 
to.  I hate to believe that any child would come out "bad" but I 
haven't really read anything in the series to convince me that at one 
time LV was a "good" child with a loving, kind heart. 

(I'm going to start some serious speculating here, mostly just to 
play around and to have an adventure in my most wild tangents) What 
if LV was so evil that just carrying the child and giving birth to 
him was enough to drain Merope of all her energy?  Maybe she would 
have had more resistance to the child if she didn't have a broken 
heart?  What if it wasn't her lack of will or caring that caused her 
not to use magic to save herself but her absolute inability to use 
magic at all because all her power had been drained of her by the 
child she was carrying?

michelle
-who likes to wildly speculate just for the h*ll of it :P