[HPforGrownups] Re: Scary Characters

[Heather Hadden]

No: HPFGUIDX 183683

Sartoris22 wrote:

>I find the Riddle of book 6 the scariest character,
>particularly when he's at the orphanage. To contemplate
>the birth of evil is quite unsettling to me. I wonder if
>the young Riddle could have been saved, was there any
>capacity for love at all. We know that Snape was capable
>of love--why not Riddle? In all his years at Hogwarts,
>Riddle, apparently, was never smitten by or attracted to
>a girl. I find that chilling. (Assuming, of course, that
>Riddle was straight.) By the age of twelve, Riddle has
>already decided that he didn't need or want love in his
>life. That's really scary to me. He seemed to be a complete
>preteen sociopath-- a frightening thought.


You are so right. I forgot all about that. Could he have
been saved? I believe that everyone could be saved, but
you have to want to be saved, and obviously, he didn't
want to be saved. I think that the only thing that he
loved was power. I honestly think that finding out he was
a wizard, and going to Hogwarts was probably the worse
thing that could have ever happened to him. Though, he
could have just ended up as a horrible serial killer in
the muggle world, he was so full of hatred.

Heather