Why Tom left Merope /Draco and Harry

[fuzz876i]

No: HPFGUIDX 147010

> > Betsy Hp:
> > Yes, but it was the kidnapping and raping that turned Tom off 
> > Merope.  And it was the spell or potion that turned Tom onto 
her.  
> > Tom didn't leave Merope because she was a witch.  He left her 
> > because she'd used him so horribly.  <SNIP>

<SNIP again>
> Betsy Hp: 
> > Draco *does* display his prejudices.  And Ron does not display 
> his.  
> > So Harry befriends Ron, and when Ron recoils from Hagrid because 
> > he's a half-giant, and when Ron is repulsed by Lupin being a 
> > werewolf, and when Ron thinks it's fitting that Filch is a 
squib, 
> > Harry forgives him and gives Ron a chance to realize that Hagrid 
is 
> > still Hagrid and Lupin is all right too.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Ron at twelve years of age knows that the word "mudblood" is wrong 
> and knows WHY it is wrong. Ron NEVER stops being Hagrid's friend, 
so 
> I am afraid I cannot see how Ron comes even remotely close to 
Draco 
> in the prejudice department. <snip>

Fuzz876i:

Are you all forgetting that it was not Ron or Harry that called 
Hermione a "mudblood" that was Malfoy.  Draco thought he was better 
than everyone because of his family ties and this to him gave him 
the frame of mind that he could say and do anything without 
reprocussion to his actions.  This being said these are true 
qualities of a bully.  He used who his father knew to try and get 
Hagrid fired in PoA.  His family and who they associated with led 
Malfoy to believe he was better than anyone else.  We also find this 
with Merope's family in that they intermarried so many times that 
the family was starting to go crazy.  She used either a love potion 
or some incantation to dupe Tom Riddle Sr into marrying her.  By 
doing this she insured that her children would not face the 
insanities of her family.  As far as I am concerned it was not 
rape.  She quit using magic because she loved him but he obviously 
never loved her and was not ever to give the affection the chance 
because she controled his mind but not his body.
fuzz876i