[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Tom left Merope /Draco and Harry

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 147028


From: rlai1977
I have sympathy for Merope for who she was, she *was* abused by both
her father and her brother. But what she did was still inexcusable,
and I totally do not believe Tom Sr did anything unreasonable by
ditching her, pregnant or not. I pity Tom even more to have not even
the option of abortion!

Also, my idea of *loving* someone is to treat that person with
kindness, NOT to abuse/manipulate them. So while Merope gets my
sympathy for being born/raised into thinking to love someone is to
rape them using drug, Tom Sr was totally faultless in my book for
not taking this "love" into consideration when he chose to leave- he
was the *victim* of this "love", after all.

kchuplis:

Well, I think we can all agree that obsession is in the genes of Slytherins.
Merope was probably more accurately described as obsessed with Tom Sr. than
in love. LV is obsessed with staving off death and controlling people. They
have no "off" switch really. Well, Merope did- death. I suppose "obsession"
is yet another leit motif in these books. Or at least the danger of
obsession.







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