Forgiveness

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 188691


> Kemper now:
> I don't see this as forgiveness.  He needs his Death Eaters to be more powerful and scary.  He rescues Bella because his other Death Eaters have been caught and so has lost supporters which make him less powerful and scary.  It's calculating not forgiving which makes Harry's suggestion of remorse still laughable.
> 

Pippin:
Ah, but V2 isn't as calculating as V1. That was one of the big shocks in DH. We were expecting to find the WW in the hands of a cold, calculating supervillain, but V2 has impulse control problems that V1 never had. That, IMO, is because V2 has impulses that V1 never had. V2 throws tantrums like a two year old, not coincidentally because his moral sense is just exactly two years old. 

V1 never considered whether his victims deserved what they got. He handed out rewards and punishments to manipulate people, or because it amused him. He was going to feed Wormtail to Nagini to punish him for  carelessness, but changed his mind when it turned out that Crouch's escape hadn't succeeded after all.  Wormtail was in luck and Nagini was out of it.  t Wormtail's carelessness was not any less because of that, but in V1's cosmos, people suffer because they are unlucky, not because they deserve to. 

But V2 is deliciously aware that Wormtail deserves pain for neglecting his master, even though Voldemort is no longer suffering from that neglect at the time. 

V2  wants to reward the DE's who went to Azkaban for him above all others (though their being there is certainly of no benefit to him). Most of all,  he's aware as he kills Snape that Snape deserves better of him. Psychopaths don't think like that, IMO.

Pippin