The Redemption of LV?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 155107

What would happen if LV (who now has Love in his blood) woke up one 
day and had a vision of hell and his life played before him and he 
saw how miserable he really was and repented of all of the evil that 
he had done?  Would JKR do that? 

Sometime it seems to me that DD cares for Tom Riddle.  In spite of 
what Tom has done with his life I think that DD cares for him.

(Page 445-446 HBP, US edition) 
LV is speaking:  "Then we have nothing more to say to each other."

"No, nothing, said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his 
face. "The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a 
burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes.  
But I wish I could, Tom
 I wish I could
"

Now this is years before the death of the Potters, and while it is 
possible that DD is thinking about the people that LV has hurt, it 
is also possible that DD is thinking about Tom, himself.  I think 
that maybe DD looks upon Tom as the person who, born under tragic 
circumstances and making bad choices along the way, could have been 
helped if only he had been loved.  Maybe DD partly blames himself, 
for what Tom has become. Harry at least had been loved, but poor Tom 
was never loved. It doesn't seem right to condemn a child who has 
never known love for his crimes as an adult when part of him does 
not fully understand the impact of his crimes.

What would happen if LV was somehow redeemed?  How would that play 
out?  Could it, in light of the prophecy? Wouldn't the greatest act 
of Love be to bring about the redemption of not Snape, but LV?

On a side note:  What does it do when you have the blood of the 
person that you killed within you?  There must be something in this 
that LV is overlooking.  Again one of those "ancient magic" things 
that flies under his radar. Will we see something about Lily's 
forgiveness having an affect on LV?

So many questions
  and a whole year to wait.

Tonks_op