Hobbsian worlds; Crime & Punishment

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No: HPFGUIDX 145793

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Alan Wilson"
<bawilson at c...> wrote:

> BAW:
> Harry can't love Voldemort; nobody can love Voldemort.  But, he 
> CAN love Tom Riddle.  I have written and posted here a little 
> scene in which Harry appeals to what is left of Tom underneath 
> the Voldemort persona.  It ends with the Order finding Harry 
> embracing a weeping young man, who--if his eyes were not swollen
> shut, his nose all puffy, and his face covered with snot and 
> tears--would have been quite handsome.  Harry says to them, 
> "Voldemort is no more.  But I'd like to introduce you to my new 
> friend--Tommy Riddle."

That would be an ending I'd truly hate. What we've seen of Tom Riddle
is that even at eleven he was a little jerk who stole, killed pets and
traumatized children younger than he himself. At Hogwarts he opened
the Chamber of Secrets, caused the death of Myrtle and got Hagrid
expelled. Voldemort is not something  that gobbled up Tom Riddle's
humanity, it was not there in the first place. Young Tom was a
thouroughly rotten human being and certainly not someone Harry could
ever call a friend. LV reversing back in age will still result in a
rotten power-hungry person. 

I don't see Harry become a murderer either, but this ending? No, not
remotely believable at all. 

Gerry