Draco, Luna, Voldemort, Harry

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Pippin:

"He'd been raised to think the rules didn't apply to him, that he 
could brag, bully or buy his way through life.

That was his idea about the Dark Arts, that the rules forbidding them were for other people's protection. Purebloods didn't need them, just as they didn't need protection from Lord Voldemort."


Jules:

Draco was what he was raised to be. Muggle children are integrated into society when they start school at 5-6 years of age, if not sooner.  Wizarding children do not enter school until 11 years old. That means that they spend even longer learning at the feet of their parents. The rules, morals and theories of what is right, wrong, or entitled is what is impressed on them. Muggleborn children or half-blood children would have a more diverse exposure to people and cultures, which would potentially provide them with a broader knowledge base on people. Purebood parents that have the beliefs that the Malfoys and Blacks have (as opposed to the Weasleys)? would not allow their children to have interactions with anything less than other Purebloods. Their only exposure would be witnessing their parents' disdain and ill treatment of others. In their families it would be the accepted thing.

Luna, too, is a product of her upbringing. Yes, her parents were obviously eccentric. But, before Luna went to Hogwarts it is doubtful that she interacted with anyone other than those who associated with and thought like her father. 


Draco and Luna's choices were results of how they were raised. Voldemort had no such influences. True, he was raised in an orphanage. He was most likely picked on by bullies a bit when he was younger. Young Tom Riddle made choices that were evil. No one told him to. No one showed him how. He sought it out. It can be argued that his circumstances caused him to be emotionally crippled. Also, Dumbledore points out to Harry (after a trip in the pensieve) that the Gaunt family had suffered from the purebood inbreeding. 

Harry was an orphan. He was certainly given less love and care than he needed. He was taunted and bullied by all of the Dursleys. Yet, his choices were not to seek retribution. He didn't want to destroy their lives and make them suffer. He just wanted out. He made his choices according to his conscience. Something that Tom Riddle gave away long before he became Lord Voldemort.