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The Existence of Evil Part 1 - The Making of Lord Voldemort

Jan 26, 2015 21:53

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an endangered species, character: voldemort, wizarding world, harry potter

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lindahoyland January 27 2015, 04:12:27 UTC

Very true.

lobelia321 January 27 2015, 21:09:54 UTC

Thinking about the orphanages and learning about the children who never learned to love makes me feel so sad. And it's chilling. We can adore Voldemort as a villain because he is so gloriously sexily aesthetically satisfyingly evil. And he's not real. But real actual adults who struggle with their past and it can never be undone, is very, very sad. :-(

drinkingcocoa February 1 2015, 14:12:06 UTC

I am whooping with agreement and so happy that you have said this, wellingtongoose. Voldemort was indeed capable of empathy and remorse. It happened after he killed Harry's parents and looked at the crying baby and realized he knew how this baby felt, and that he himself had created such desolation. (See the chapter "Bathilda's Secret" in Deathly Hallows: "he had killed the boy, and yet he was the boy ( ... )

wellingtongoose February 1 2015, 23:45:41 UTC

I actually forgot that part in the deathly hallows. That is a very good example of Voldemort engaging in empathy. I particularly love the idea that the orphans Voldemort terrorised would be able to grow up to lead happy successful lives!

narcissa_malfoy February 15 2015, 21:29:13 UTC

Unlike the orphanages of 1930s Britain, many of the newborn babies who arrived in the orphanage did eventually live into their adult years

Why didn't the newborn babies who arrived in the orphanages of 1930s Britain live into their adult years?

wellingtongoose February 15 2015, 22:39:31 UTC

Infant and child mortality in the general population was much higher in 1930s and it was disproportionately higher in orphanages. Also in 1930s Britain most institutions had cottage home schemes that tried to resemble families, boarding out schemes (the forerunner of foster care today) and a high rate of adoptions, none of which happened in eastern european orphanages.

The style of Tom Riddle's orphanage by 1930s was no longer the norm, but I think JK Rowling was going for the traditional victorian/dickens portrayal of an orphanage.

THE EXISTENCE OF EVIL PART 1 - THE MAKING OF LORD VOLDEMORT tatgoat May 19 2015, 14:47:04 UTC

I really liked, no loved, your points, especially that V had still his brains and so he was actually able to chose a differed road, to which he didn't ( ... )