Forgiveness

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 188751

Steve wrote: 

Actually, Riddle wasn't even a borderline case.  Until the age of 18, he couldn't even be diagnosed accurately as having a sociopathic or psychopathic condition...the DSM-IV doesn't become valid til age 18 and until there is a pervasive pattern of that serious behavior. 
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Carol responds:
DSMV guidelines aside, he killed four people (Myrtle and the three Riddles) before he was seventeen, made at least one Horcrux by that time, and planned to make five more. The wish to make yourself immortal by killing other people and trapping bits of your soul in an object is not normal by any standard, regardless of whether he was sixteen or sixty.

Carol, who doesn't care whether we label Riddle as a psychopath, a sociopath, or neither as long as we agree that he was devious and dangerous at an early age