JKR is a Death Eater? (was:Re: Hobbsian worlds; Crime & Punishment)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 145960

 > Lupinlore wrote:
> 
> I'll have to say that if JKR really wanted to  show us a 
> classical "liberal"  scenario, she missed a golden  opportunity 
> with Voldy's backstory.  Do we find great moral struggles,  human 
> emotion, and sympathetic portrayal in the Fall of Tom Riddle?  

Pippin:
Nope. We'll find them in the Fall of ESE!Lupin and the Rise of
DDM!Snape. Stay tuned.

La Gatta Lucianese: (145916)

As I mentioned in a post somewhile back, it is coming to be a more or 
less accepted theory that psychopathic personalities are born, not 
made. Nurture may determine the way psychopathy expresses itself 
(does the child turn into a serial killer or the corporate boss from 
hell?), but the personality itself seems to be inborn, and can appear 
fully formed in very young children. See Dr. Robert Hare on the 
subject.

Pippin:
You mean, that had young Riddle been rewarded for keeping
his sadistic and paranoid impulses under control, and for using his
magic in socially acceptable ways, he might have grown up
to be a powerful, ruthless and manipulative leader who puts
enormous emotional demands on his underlings (who are bonded
partly by their sympathy for one another in having to put
up with Him), who seems incapable of normal attachment but 
does reward and value  loyalty? Who recognizes love as a Squib might 
recognize magic, as an enormously powerful force which is forever 
locked away but which others can use to great advantage? 

I think we've met someone like him.  Elderly chap, big silver beard, 
pointy hat. Epitome of goodness, you might say .

Of course if Dumbledore lacks empathy, we must ask what motivates
him to do good for others? Well, the one thing Dumbledore seems
paranoid about is dementors, who breed wherever fear and misery
dwell. So Dumbledore could devote himself to bringing more love 
into the world, even though he can't feel it himself, because even
though he can't feel it, it still protects him from the thing he
fears most.

Pippin
who realizes this sounds weird but thinks it might be an interesting
way to look at DD