Amortentia and re The morality of love potions/Merope and Tom Sr.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 152299

> Alla:
> 
> Could you give me an example of Merope being a victim in her 
> relationship with Tom Riddle? I mean, I don't think anybody would 
> argue that she was the victim of horrible abuse, but how is it in 
> any way, shape or form diminishes the wrongness of what she did to 
> that poor man?
> 

Pippin:
::making it a fivesome:: Even the randiest teenage boy is not compelled
to make love to someone just because he finds the object of his obsession is
attractive and available, not even if he thinks he is madly in love. Nor
is he compelled to make the vows of marriage: for better or  for worse, for
richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, with all my worldly goods I 
thee endow and so on. In those days, as everyone knew,  there was no 
exception for finding  out that you were deceived in your feelings -- 
and everybody knew you might be, magic or no. 

Till death us do part. Marriage was pretty much an unbreakable vow in
 those days. 

By the laws and customs of that era, Tom  owed Merope support as
long as she was faithful to  him, and I don't think anyone  has 
suggested that she wasn't. 

Pippin