Merope's Selfishness

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No: HPFGUIDX 147160

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrea Grevera" 
<agdisney at m...> wrote:
>
> 
>   Yes she was depressed and didn't know where to turn but if she 
only asked
>   she would not have been left alone, Tom wouldn't have grown up 
in a muggle
>   orphanage, he wouldn't have turned rotten, he wouldn't have 
become LV and
>   we wouldn't have a story.
> 
>   Andie
> 

Allie: 

Maybe, maybe not.  I doubt that the entire character of Tom Riddle 
was due to his upbringing.  Some of it was probably genetic.  
There's certainly enough evidence of "rotten to the core" in that 
family!  He might have turned out just the same.