Forgiveness

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 188697

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> Magpie:
> Yes, you are making up his past in order to contrast it with things you're claiming are OOC for him. I'm not looking at the guy in any of those memories and not seeing the same guy as continued all the way through GoF. That he doesn't get angry when things are going well for him and he feels victorious does not make it OOC for him to get angry when things aren't going well for him and gets beaten by a baby.

Pippin:
On his way to Godric's Hollow, Voldemort thinks that he's never angry, that anger is for lesser souls. It's not as if he's never been thwarted before. But when his plans didn't work out, he just changed them. Even as a baby, he didn't cry. 

 After his rebirthing, he not only notes that he's getting quite sentimental, he tells Harry his true family is returning. Those statements struck me  the very first time I read them because they didn't fit with the  completely cold-blooded monster I thought Voldemort was supposed to be.  So this change in Voldemort is not something I discovered after the fact. 

Magpie:
He always put on shows of people being his favorites, that's why they competed amongst themselves. 

Pippin:
True, but  the reason that people become favorites changes. Quirrell is punished for his failures although he was completely loyal.  But though the Lestranges  failed to rescue their master,  V2 feels they deserve a reward for their loyalty, and they are, in fact, restored to favor after their rescue from Azkaban. Wormtail, OTOH, succeeded, and yet he's to be punished, because he acted out only out of fear.  It just seems to me that V2 has a different value system. 

Pippin