[HPforGrownups] Re: What if...? - My last minute theory

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 172114

From: ronnie <remuslupin73 at hotmail.com>
>Harry is good because his mother (and father) loved him. LV is evil 
>(or has no love in him) because his mother & father didn't love him, 
>even enough to live (in merope case). LV is described as non 
>affectionate even as a baby. It's not because of something that 
>happened later in his childhood.

Bart:
If you think about it for a minute, that is highly unlikely. There had to be something else about Morty. After all, the overwhelming majority of kids whose are orphaned by their mother's death in childhood come out fine. Morty may not have received a lot of love, but he had as much opportunity as the other kids in the orphanage. 

Morty is mentally ill, and, as near as anybody can tell, he was born that way. Among other things, he is entirely incapable of empathy. To use more WW parlance, his mind has never been in touch with his soul; that is why he had no horror of creating horcruxes, and it is also a major reason why he has such a horror of death. To him, when he dies, the Universe disappears. Whether or not he might have been cured is a moot point, now that he has split up his soul; he is no longer human, but a soulless monster.

Bart