Tom Riddle, Sr.

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 152349

To those ladies who say that a man cannot feel hurt, humiliation, residual
anger, even PTSD, etc. as a consequence of being forced into an unwanted sexual
encounter, all I can say is that I am very glad that I am not YOUR husband or
boyfriend.

Tom certainly didn't suffer the PHYSICAL trauma of rape, but MENTALLY and
EMOTIONALLY he most probably did after the potion wore off.  I'm sure that his
memory of what he did to/with Merope was unaffected was not in any way altered
after the potion wore off, and I'm sure that the thought of having been with
THAT nauseated him, to say the least.  And, don't overlook the other
possibility--Dumbledore suggested, IIRC, that perhaps Merope used rather than a
love potion the Imperius Curse (he said that a love potion was more likely, but
still. . . ); that would have been even worse from Tom's point of view, because
during each encounter he would have been like two people--the one who was 'doing
it' and the other who was standing to one side screaming "NOOOO!"  If that isn't
rape, I don't know what is.

OOTP says that none of the Riddle family were very nice people, but NOBODY
deserves that.


BAW



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