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

[Maria Vaerewijck]

No: HPFGUIDX 152443

SSSusan, who cannot BELIEVE she's entering into this thread, says:

Setting aside the issue of who suffered more (I definitely believe 
each suffered, so I'm NOT arguing Merope didn't suffer a LOT), I just 
can't believe Tom's "marriage vows" enter into this at all.  

<snip> If he took his marriage "vows" under the influence of Merope's 
love potion, then why is he obligated to keep to those vows/that contract?

And even if you're not arguing that he had a legal obligation to 
stand by her, I also don't think many people would feel he had any 
moral obligation either, regardless of how pathetic the situation 
was.  *I'm* guessing he was horrified by what she had done and 
couldn't wait to get away.  Am I alone in thinking that's how most of 
us would react if someone had tricked us into such a relationship and 
totally altered our life??


maria8162001:
   
  No, SSSusan, you're not alone in thinking that's how most of us are 
going to react if what happened to Tom Sr, will happen to any of us. 
We would all react the same. That is what I'm trying to point out in 
my post yesterday but I am not good at expressing my opinion, maybe 
because english is my second language.

  I have sympathy for Merope but the crime (if you could call it a 
crime) she did to Tom Sr, doesn't make it less and she should not get 
away with it just because we feel or should feel sorry for her, for 
the way she grew up. A crime is a crime no matter what your childhood 
is, IMO.