Why did Voldemort go bad?

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> Heather:
> I am not saying that this forgives Tom SR, nor does it
> excuse it, but he was used by Merope. He felt used, and
> that made him feel weak. <SNIP> After being used, and your free will
> taken, and who knows what else (in his mind) he wants
> nothing to do with anything magical.


Alla:

I will go further and say as I always did that to me it **does** 
forgive Tom Sr. I always felt that Merope ( and I really do not think 
that her being unloved and abused somehow justifies her abusing another 
human being. I know you did not say it, just saying) raped Tom Riddle. 
While I think as Potioncat does that it is unclear that Tom Riddle knew 
about the baby, even if he did knew, I would have forgiven him had he 
wanted nothing to do with this baby.

I would have never say anything bad about a woman who does not want her 
baby if the woman was raped, and since I feel that this man was raped, 
I feel the same way.

Yes baby is not at fault for anything for circumstances of his birth of 
course.

I of course pity Merope for her home situation, but NOT for anything 
she did to Tom.

To me Tom's inability to return and make a normal life for himself 
portrays a broken man, a man horribly taken advantage of.

I do not blame him one way or another.

I would have LIKED him to take care of the baby, if I knew for sure 
that he did know about him, but even if I do not think that it can be 
totally right, it is in my mind completely excused.

JMO,

Alla