[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort babyfied?

[Beth Hartung]

No: HPFGUIDX 171692

Carol:
Harry has seen what LV was like as a boy. He's even heard Mrs. Cole say that
he never responded to affection or attention even as a baby. He was strange
from the first. Harry would know that they'd be just repeating history...

MercuryBlue:
Something I think you're forgetting is that baby Tom lived in an orphanage.
There were dozens of other children needing attention, and the one that got
attention was most likely the one that cried the loudest. Tom never cried.
Ergo, the staff assumed Tom needed no attention. Ergo, Tom never got
attention. Contrast this with a scenario in which Tom is being raised by two
parents who know full well he needs attention and a lot of it (possibly with
another child or two in the house as well, to demonstrate to Tom that he's
not the only one who needs attention).

Your points about his fragmentary soul and likely facial structure are
taken, though.

MercuryBlue


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