Another factor is that he believed that his father abandoned his mother because he found out she was a witch and thus sought revenge on the Muggle world as a result, not knowing that it was in fact because Merope stopped using the love potion, believing that Tom Riddle Sr would by then have fallen in love with her anyway or else would stay for the child's sake
@@chrissi975 Children raised without a father are much more likely to develope antisocial tendencies though and are much more likely to become criminals. Doesn't mean it's always the case or even happens most of the time, but the likelyhood is much greater.
the Gaunts, a very ancient wizarding family noted for a vein of instability and violence that flourished through the generations due to their habit of marrying their own cousins. Voldemort was the grandson Marvolo always wanted
Except Marvolo would most likely have drowned his half-blooded grandson in infancy. Marvolo despised anything that was less than pureblood, and also anything that wasn't descended from Slytherin. There's no way that he would have allowed a halfblood to "stain" his bloodline.
@@TheYasmineFlower he did not drown himself, he disowned her and starved himself. Like, he did not leave the house and just stayed in here doing nothing until he died, after finding out the Merope had a child with a muggle.
Riddle/Voldemort display many of the attributes of a psychopath. Don't forget, that he was a Gaunt. The Gaunt's were the byproduct of generations of inbreeding. His great-uncle was a violent and abusive man. His son, Tom's uncle, clearly suffered from a similar violent streak. Riddle's muggle father was a selfish, egotistical narcissist (not necessarily a trait that would be passed on to a child), and Tom's mother most likely carried the genes that drove her brother and father into madness. There is no reason to believe that Tom Riddle's environment (the orphanage) have contributed to his negative behavior. There was no evidence of abuse or mistreatment. His anti-social behavior was evident from early childhood. He penchant for cruelty and enjoyment of torture was evident when he was a small child. Tom Riddle was clever enough to conceal his mental illness from some of his teachers. Dumbledore was always suspicious of him, but tried to give him the benefit of the doubt
Why was Tom's father a bad person? He was raped, striped away from his free will without doing anything that even remotely deserved it. No one deserves that treatment. He was in love with another woman, but Merope just
While all the things you mentioned definitely play a part in Voldemort's evil, He was also the product of a thousand years of second hand incest. The Guants married their cousins to maintain their "blood purity" and it drove them mad, Similar to the Targaryens. His conception through a love potion "False Love" you could say, his bad environment of power and ambition as well as elitist thinking, all caused a perfect storm to create the most evil wizard of all time. The evil fruit, born of a twisted tree, grown from poisoned soil.
Because motherly love is such a theme in the books I cannot buy Bellatrix having a child. The timing is off and there is no sign of room for it fitting into the existing narrative. Helena Bonham Carter even said that inflicting pain is her only joy and that she doesn't get the Weasley family at all. It is also goes to the reason why Tom/Voldemort can't grasp that Narcissa lied to him about Harry Potter dying. I know the author only approved the script versus wrote much of it. She probably was too busy with Fantastic Beasts to think about it hugely. I think the sorting and how his childhood made Voldemort makes sense. Good job.
Tom Riddle was a politician. Very early on he saw the truth of this world - that power is what ultimately guides the fate of nations. He manipulated and schemed in a Machiavellian plot to see himself empowered, playing on the base fears and prejudices of those around him. He wanted to position himself as the commander of the entire world because he thought that it was his rightful place as the most powerful. In his conceitedness, he overlooked more powerful forces which brought him low. J.K. Rowling is very much idealistic, left-wing and a very sympathetic individual. It's only natural that her villain would be everything she despises - a cynical manipulator without a care for anyone or anything but himself.
I disagree with the plot being Machiavellain, as that would imply that there was an intention for some good to come out of it. The ends justify the means and all that. Machiavellian people often believe themselves to see "the bigger picture." Voldemort's picture did not extend beyond himself.
Honorable Judge His greater good would have been the purity of the wizarding world, essentially. A place where the magical elite would rule over the less magical normal ones.
***** Which contradicts the statement that he only cares about his own selfish agendas. This applies, even if he only cares for the very small minority of pure bloods, which we do know is more like a means to an end for his own power, rather than an actual political agenda. In addition, the greater good in Machiavellism is intended to benefit the majority. 1000 lives to save 2000. One million to save two million, etc. Machiavellism is largely based on pure logic and is highly morally ambigious. Voldemort? Not so much.
Honorable Judge Tom Riddle did not care about none .He basically uses ideas from others to develop his own terrible power .Magical world domination comes from Gellert Grindelwald and the idea of pure blooded wizardry from Slytherin himself .Also Voldemort did never realised that he was only saved from expellation by Armando Dippet to have no other Dark wizard around .I mean Dumbledore understands Parsel .He would have even heard Tom talking to the Basilisk .Such stupidity is not macchiavellian .But many other wizards are more Macchiavellian , Grindelwald , Snape or Barty Crouch Junior .And from other universes Palpatine , Dooku and Snoke .Tom is to easy to predict and Counter .He is easily betrayed by people around him ,without noticing it .Regulus , Severus , Narcissa did it and Voldemort never realised .He also undermines his own power by defining himself as an abnomination .Thats definitely not Macchiavellian .Voldemort rules solely with fear .People who did not fear him could easily undermine his power .Voldemort solely thinks what is good for himself .He never understands power truly and is foiled by his servants .He even do not understand the situation of his horcruxes truly .And what is more unmachiavellian than do not try to use an enemy against himself or to not try to bring enemys to your side a thing Voldemort is incapabel of .While Grindelwald motto is " For the Greater Good" , Voldemorts would be" I decide who is to die ,because i cheated dead "
Johannes Bruellmann You're barking at the wrong tree right now. I argued against Voldemort being Machiavellian, or even remotely caring about anyone else than himself and his own power.
J.K Rowling said herself that the point of him being born with his father under the love potion is just a metaphor. She also said that if his mother stayed alive, he wouldn't have turned out that way, love potion or not.
Well then she should've written him more carefully. Because she's written him as a psychopath, and psychopathy is something you're BORN with. You can't cure or avoid it. Either she doesn't understand how to write evil characters' backstories without making them psychopaths, or she doesn't understand what a psychopath is. Besides, Merope was clearly an evil and self serving person herself - she literally brainwashed and raped a guy. And all the evil in Voldemort's family is on HER side. So why on Earth would he be different if she had raised him, assuming he's a product of his environment? That's almost a WORSE environment to raise a child in. At least when you're in an orphanage, you're aware of the fact that this isn't exactly a normal environment for children. It's made very clear that this is the exception, not the rule, and that most kids grow up with parents. Which can at least give you hope that it's different with parents. When your PARENTS are evil, that's ALL you know. There is no "different". That is your normal.
That you are born with psychopathy is not universally accepted and still debated. These is at least one case where one identical twin is a psychopath and the other one isn`t.
Inbreeding doesn`t lead to instability per definition. Egyptian pharaos practiced full incest for many generations and rarely seem to have been harmed by that.
That's why Dumbledore chose to leave Harry with his Family. Part of the reason anyway.... he gave him a relatively peaceful childhood instead of having him in the spot light as the boy who lived. Sure we look at the Dursleys and think them in whole horrible people, not mentioning the Harry as Horcrux theory... but they took him in and provided for him anyway... He had structures Tom Riddle never did and structures he would have never had if he was exclusively brought up among magical peoples.
Because I think his aunt loved him deep down like deep down she did with her sister , not where near as much as Dudley and her husband but it was there . Harry seemed to turn out a pretty healthy individual. So he wasn't that badly neglected .
I think its worth discussing that they might have felt there was no option but to say yes... If a powerful wizard came to my door and said "Your sister and her husband were murdered by another powerful wizard" I'd be concerned the implications if I said no. Who might harm and blame me for trying to stay out of this mess with my small child and husband? There's no real way out when you perceive others can tell you what to do and you HAVE to participate because THEY (wizards) know where you live and can stop by anytime...
Wasn’t there a thing about how the protection Harry’s mother gave him would work until age 18, so long as he was with his family? Which is why death eaters never infiltrated the house while he was growing up?
Whether or not you believe that genetics plays a role in bad behaviour in the real world is irrelevant here, but clearly JK Rowling plays up his bloodline, and the cruelty throughout. Tom is not exposed to this, which means he is not raised in the same environment, yet still becomes evil. I think it would be more realistic to say that his upbringing heightened the development of underlying behaviours he was born with... plus the love potion, and the inability to love is meant to serve as a 'magical' and easy explanation for it.
I never even considered before how the use of love potion could have affected Voldemort. Makes perfect sense from the way you explain it. Another factor I think may have contributed to his evil is not just the lack of true parental love but also a partner to love or his own children. Take the Malfoy couple. They're horrible people, happy to see others suffer, yet in the end it's Narcissa's love for Draco that makes her betray Voldemort and then Lucius's love for his wife and son that makes him join them when you see them walking away at the end of the last film. Lots of good single people out there of course, but just maybe if Tom Riddle had found someone else to love (like how Snape loved Lily) it might have changed him.
+matthew mann Genetics don't take away our ability to love, and being the heir of a guy who lived a thousand years ago doesn't predetermine anything either. No one ever called Slytherin unable to love.
@@headlessguy98 rowling stated that him being conceived under the influence of a love potion was a metaphor, not a reason as to why he became the way he did.
Tom did felt for the longest time that his father was 'magical' , and that his mother was just a tramp and a muggle to boot. It wasn't until he went in search of answers after Hogwarts that he learned that his father was muggle and his mother was a witch. But when he went in search of her roots he was very dissappointed in their status [being poor & so on.] He did not realize until later that his mother had used a love potion on Tom Riddle Senior.....but that did not stop him from killing Tom riddle senior as revenge for breaking his mother's heart, [Ah what we do for love!] So he stole the symbols of their so-called power....the ring and the locket - even killing the owner of the locket and his grandfather in order to get the ring.[framing the house elf and his uncle for the murders!
Fay Schneider I didn’t realize that he ever realized that his mother used a love potion on his father. I read the books tears ago when I was still a kid however and I wasn’t the biggest fan of the writing style so I’m pretty sure I skim read. I definitely need to re-read them.
there's also another psychological side to this. Since he was in such an orphanage since he was a baby, I'm guessing he was never hugged, cuddled or shown any kind of tender or gentleness. Harry was actually given that for a brief period by Lily and James, while Tom received none whatsoever and continued on throughout childhood.
As you said, Harry and Voldemort grew up in similar environments, I would even say that Harry's upbringing was even worse than Voldemort's seeing how he was mistreated by his adoptive family. Yet they went down such different paths. Voldemort chose to go down the dark path of his own accord.
Entropi I disagree. Petunia loved Lily even though she was jealous of her being a witch. Remember that Lily & Snape (when children)found a letter Petunia had written to Dumbledore begging to attend Hohwarts and his very kind reply. Petunia would have cared for Harry as a baby--she could not be seen not doing the right thing. Appearances were EVERYTHING to the Dursleys. Recall his business dinner spoiled by Dobbie's hover charm on the pudding, and the incident with Vernon's sister, Aunt Marge? The Dursleys were terrible to Harry but he did see expressions of love towards Dudley, and how rotten Dudley was being so spoiled. Being raised from birth in an orphanage was much colder emotionally in the 1920's, not long after WW1 and no one to rock, hold or comfort you. Tom would have realised quickly that he was entirely on his own. He learned at an early age that to incite fear made him less of a target. Harry had only to contend with Dudley and his parents as not much is known about Harry's school experiences prior to Hogwarts except for having to wear Dudley's huge, re-dyed hand me downs. Tom Riddle would have had 30-60 other children to contend with 24/7 in the orphanage and the Matron there was probably uncaring as she had a penchant for liquor so could have gone about her duties in a stupor. Although Tom was a bright student at Hogwarts, dont think for one moment that this helped him. He was most likely teased coming from an orphanage as he did, and he relied on a special fund at Hogwarts to purchase even the essential school supplies and uniforms. Remember how Draco taunted Ron the very first night for his hand me down robes? Tom Riddle probably experienced much the same. He could not trust anyone, not completely whereas Harry came into his own during his first year at Hogwarts, making friends with many, being made seeker of the Gryffindor team, and being shown kindness by adults-first Hagrid, then Molly Weasley, Dumbledore..McGonagall. Sorry about being so lengthy. This is just my opinion.
In the series JKR actually has Harry and Voldemort go through very rough childhoods (and rough in similar ways) and yet all they turn out to be completely different people and this actual disperses the idea (within the story) that a hard environment turn u into a villian
The fact of the matter is that love and the magic of love is a very real difference. Despite them being dead, Harry had a connection to his parents to fall back on, in that he knew that his parents died to protect him and left a final powerfully magical evidence of that love, in the form of the protective spell. That's one hell of a memento, and Voldemort never got anything like that to remember his parents by, in fact he was entirely abandoned and left to rot in an orphanage, because that was the best life Merope Gaunt had left to give her son. There's a VAST difference between "I'm alone in the world because my parents loved me enough to die to keep me alive" and "I'm alone in the world because my parents abandoned me and left me to fend for myself." Or did you notice that Lord Voldemort schemed not just to come back to human form, which he could have done with the blood of nearly every wizard in Britain, but demanded Harry's blood, to claim that love magic birthright for himself? While he told himself that the scheme was to make himself more powerful... that was clearly only partially true.
hagamapama, I agree but let's also nnot forget that Harry had at least 15 months with his parents while Tom Riddle had been abandoned by both of his parents before he was even one day old. The first year in a child's life is a very crucial time in terms of attachment. So, Harry had had time to experience love and security in his relationship with his parents. Tom Riddle however grew up in an orphanage in the 1920's where he had no chance to be securely attached to anyone.
I actually believe that Voldemort's evil paths wasn't because he grew up without his parents love even though it's true that his life would have been different if his mother had raised him. however I also think that it came from himself, dumbledore said it too... he was just 11, when he chose severe punishments for the other children from the orphanage. he wanted to be different due to his arrogance, which I think he inherited from his father ...
Love this stuff! Please make a video on what you think would have happened if Dumbledore and Grindlewald had succeeded in their plan to enslave the muggles.
harry did have a mother molly weasley was a mother for him if you read the books it is so clear to understand that the weasleys are his family for him he didn't just save arthur because of ron but he saves him for all of the weasleys he wanted arthur with him on the ministery and molly took care for him like he was her own son he had the love of a family somthing tom never had yes both they grew up without the love of their own family but at the moment harry meets the weasleys he found the love of a family and after the prisoner of azkaban sirius and remus are there to for him my point his harry found love from familly not his own but still tom riddle never found love not even by slidderich he couldn't make real friends only servants
Seems Rowling didn't see it that way, or she would've killed the Weasleys. She specifically said the reason she killed Sirius was because she didn't want Harry to have parental figures.
Your Mom's Creepy Uncle literally no ?? molly loves harry as her own son and i think that harry appreciates and loves her for that. when it's harry's 17th birthday molly gives him a watch and in the book it says that HE hugged HER but not just because of the watch, but because of everything she's done for him. he probably acts like that around her because that's how kids act around their mothers usually,, your impressions are wrong.
Tom was mental unhinged an egotistical insane. What he needed was mental help and to be removed from the orpanage. The fact they left a magical child in such a public place. Is a crime its self. As Tom could have lost his #%&* and done a lot of damage.
Based on Voldemort's symptoms and early behaviour, I'm pretty sure he was an actual psychopath; and sad to say, but you can't really HELP a psychopath. A psychopath is someone literally born without the ability to feel love - a.k.a. Voldemort's exact problem - and there's nothing any psychologist can do about that. Even with our MODERN mental health science, let alone the time period Riddle grew up in, psychopaths are basically doomed from birth. Also, I'm gonna assume a LOT of magical children during that time period were growing up in that environment and, you know, NOT turning evil? It makes no sense to assume Riddle was the only magical child in that position. Clearly there was almost no precedent for what he did, which would be why no one saw it coming. Dumbledore was unsettled, but he was unaware of how FAR Riddle was willing to go. In most children with psycopathy, you can't necessarily TELL what's wrong with them. You just know something is. In fact, it only gets harder once those kids grow up. As they get older, people with psychopathy learn to PRETEND they have normal human emotions. You could know a psychopath right now and not realise unless they snap and kill someone. So there's no reason anyone should have known what Voldemort was.
+LordofFullmetal Afaik, the "diagnosis" of psychopathy is called into question these days and not actually accepted as real. There is NO SUCH THING as a child that is doomed from birth. The only thing that POTENTIALLY dooms a child from birth is if the people around it keep pretending that it is so. A mindfuck like that leaves it's marks. But no child is doomed from birth just by it's genetics. That's not how reality works. And it's very doubtful that many magical children grew up in loveless institutions where they were hated for the "weird things" they could do. Some muggleborns, perhaps, but most muggle children didn't live in orphanages, so statistically, it would have been very few muggleborns. And children with wizarding relatives would have been spared an institution because wizards and witches are almost all related in some way, resulting in at least some family members or friends of family left to take responsibility for a child that lost it's parents. Dumbledore was in no way unaware of the fact that Tom was a troubled child. But he chose to ignore it. He chose to believe an adult in a position of power over a child that was mistrustful of adults. The signs that Tom Riddle was not given any love, care or guidance were NEON FUCKING RED in his face, but he chose to do nothing. Tom Riddle was not a psychopath. He was a child who saw that no one would look out for him, so he would have to do it all by himself. Of course that made it difficult for him to connect with others. But he could have been helped if only someone had stood up for him. But Dumbledore saw all the signs and he did nothing. The only one whose lack of emotions should be called out is Dumbledore. He was the adult. It was his job to do something to help his students. But he chose to do nothing. And people choose to defend him for it.
Seriously. He wasn't even sent to an orphanage for magic users. He was sent to an orphanage with muggle children who'd stand no chance against him. He already killed their pets and made people do things.
I think the two main factors that lead to Voldemort's evil were his parents. A lot of children who had parents that commited suicide grow up hating weakness, not just physical weakness but the emotional and mental weakness that could lead to their parents taking their own lives. Voldemort's mom was frail and weak and basically gave up living before her death. It's not a stretch that Voldemort would percieve weakness as a cause of her death and grow to hate it just as a child who had a parent that commited suicide. Also he had a muggle father who abandoned his mother and him, his unborn child so of course he hated his father and possibly (by extension) all muggles, and meeting his uncle who let him know about his bloodline to Salazar Slytherin certainly didn't help as it would have played right into his pride that he was greater then anyone else, his hatred of muggles and muggle borns, and his sense of entitlement, after all Salazar was practically royalty why should he be a poor orphan boy? He should have inherited greatness but since that didn't happen he'd make his own inheritance. That being my belief on that subject I'd like to take a poin on what you said. There is evil and actually 3 types. The type you mentioned is 'unperceived evil'. Unperceived evil is where they do evil things but think they're doing good, like a terrorist who kills a lot of innocent people but only because they were brainwashed into thinking that all the people they are killing are pure evil and by killing them they're destroying evil for Alla. So in their eyes they are good and what they're doing is for a good cause. Then we have 'crazy evil'. This is the type of evil where you don't think you're doing good or evil but you simply can't grasp the concept of either one or you can grasp the concept but don't have the ability to care as you lack the ability to feel love, compassion or guilt. The last kind of evil is 'true evil' this is evil where a person knows the difference between right and wrong and knows what they're doing is evil but does it anyway because their greed, wrath, lust, pride, or envy are stronger then there love. Anyone think those things sound familiar? Then you're probably familiar with the 7 deadly sins. There's also gluttony and sloth but these are more likely to prevent you from doing good then driving you to commit evil so as I've already said before another topic for another day. Greed is about the most common cause of true evil, why do people rob banks, snatch purses, or mug people? For money! The person wants money and decides they can get a lot of it by just stealing it. Wrath can also lead to true evil, someone wrongs you and gets away with it and you just can't move on you need revenge and you don't care how far you have to go to get it and if others get hurt in the process so be it. Hatred and prejudice can also come into play here, these three things can feed off each other or even mimic each other almost flawlessly. Lust can lead to some pretty bad things too. Look at Helen of Troy for instance, a man wanted to obtain the most beautiful woman in the world and finds her but she's married, so be kidnaps her and starts a war! Even David commited an act of evil by sending a woman's husband to die in battle so he could take her as his own! Sex slaves and prostition both stem from lust and neither lead to anything good. Pride has lead to evil many a time throughout history, one could argue this trait can also belong with crazy evil since enough pride can make someone feel like they are worth so much more then everybody else rules don't apply to them. This can also feed into prejudice which as earlier pointed out feeds hatred and rage which in turn can also feed and mimic each other leading someone to greater and greater forms of evil. Finally we come to envy, envy is the desire to obtain something that belongs to someone else. Envy can lead to greed, wrath, or lust which in turn can lead to evil. Is it really any wonder why these qualities are considered sinful? True evil often comes in segments, someone doesn't want to be evil at first but they start to make a compromise or a justification, and it works out so well for them they make another, and another and before they know it they fall so far down they don't even need justification to compromise anymore. True evil often has a very bad wake up call when someone takes a moment to stop and look back on what they've done. Unless they are crazy evil the guilt can be overwhelming, that moment of 'what have I done?' Anyways, that's what I believe are the three forms of evil.
Also, Harry did have his mother's love, even if it was only for a short time. Tom never had it. I think growing up in an orphanage was a factor as, even though the Dursleys treated Harry poorly, he still grew up in a family environment.
It is the choices we make that are important. Another boy, who grew up with a muggle father and a mother who was a witch and lived an early life of neglect in a household wracked with violence, was Severus Snape. He never entirely lost his moral compass and due to his abiding love for Lily Potter became a silent hero of the HP saga.
I think his family history comes into play as well. I have a similar personality to my great grandmother, even though i know very little about her. I noticed that Voldermort seems to have a similar personality to his grandfather, even though he never met him.
4:38 unlike some villians, his cold heartes nature wasn't by choice. The only actual cold hearted villian from birth I know is Valkorion from star Wars
Voldemort actually shows various signs and symptoms of psychopathy, which would imply that the "love potion" theory is pretty close to being true. A psyhopath is a person born without the ability to feel empathy or love. For this reason, they act ONLY in their own interests at all times; they literally can't comprehend the idea of just being nice for the sake of it. EVERYTHING they do is to further their own goals, because they don't know anything else. This leads to a tendency to treat other people as objects and servants, because you don't understand them and thus it's really easy to dehumanise them. Psychopaths are also capable of learning how to PRETEND they're normal, when doing so suits their goals. Tons of psychopaths who have ended up murdering people lived completely normal lives for years beforehand; with friends, and family, none of whom ever knew there was something wrong until it was too late. How much does all that sound like Voldemort? But here's the thing: even with modern mental health science, it's impossible to cure psychopathy. If you're a psychopath, there is no hope for you. That's basically how it's treated in the mental health community. And that's NOW, let alone decades ago when Tom Riddle was a child. So assuming he's a psychopath, it's useless to sit here going "if they'd done this, it would've saved him". Following his behavioural patterns, there IS no saving him.
It was indeed woldemorts choice to do the things he did but he obviously didnt have much to cling to other than his lonliness and void which made him very ignorant that caused his attack of punishment. It is really heartbreaking to see
1:33 I have never considered that his evilness may have been rooted by being conceived under the influenced of the love potion. i think it was being in the orphanage from birth no love. (I don't believe it has to be from the mother specifically just love in general another person would have done the job as well). From the get go, He was in the orphanage his care would be like this. In the 1920s babies would be looked after harshly especially in orphanages as there is less adults to look after them. He would only be picked up to be fed every 4 hours, no eye contact, no talking to, no cuddles. In between feedings he would be put in his pram that is it. More likely would not be allowed to leave pram until much older. When he would grow into a playpen. Then after that moved out. But no hugs, cuddles, ever. Yeah would have had to deal with things on his own. Be self sufficient. He was also very genetically malformed if it was not for his muggle's DNA being so inbred he would not have lived otherwise. And violence tendencies can be genetic in overly inbred dogs so it would make sense a human can be effected the same way.
He was evil because his mother, merope gaunt fed his father a love potion and since his birth was based off of a love potion, he could not feel love or friendship.
I really don't think that wizard love is different from muggle love. Love is not a form of magic, but it can be used to create powerful magic, such as Lily's sacrifice creating a powerful (yet very specific) protection spell for Harry. An example of how wizard love is identical to muggle love is when Harry was first in love with Cedric's girlfriend and then later had a falling out with her. It isn't any different. The very invention of love potions is another example. If it was so different then there'd be no need for such a thing. I'm convinced that it's everything to do with how Voldimort was brought up as well as his decision to live forever. As for the characters being set in stone from their childhood, I'd like to point out that Dumbledor himself flies right in the face of this. In his back-story, Dumbledor was set on the path to becoming a less than favorable person, himself, but then further events in his life changed who he was, not completely, but enough. He knew that he was a power-hungry control freak and though it took the death of his sister for him to change, he did realize that he needed to be better than he was. Harry was also struggling with anger quite often, whether you consider it his fault or not, and had to occasionally be set back onto the right path.
But the idea Dumbledore being a champion of Muggleborns and Muggles like is claimed is based on senseless conjuncture . We have no evidence he changed his views at all and saw Muggles as deserving equal rights . On the other hand I think Magical / Muggle marriages were some of the toughest of all . It would have required a lot of trust . And it's supprising at how well they seem to work out in the Harry Potter world
Thanks for the great video. I have always wanted to know how the love potion effected voldemort. There were alot of contributing factor to voldemort's evil but in the end he chose that path himself.
But that isn't all that accurate. Yes, people choose their path, but which path they choose depends on which paths they see. And if circumstances and other people block the view to other paths, then it's no wonder when they choose a particular one. If anyone had helped Tom Riddle see other paths that were open to him, he could have had a real choice. As it is, he had no real choice, because he didn't actually see his options.
Harry Potter Folklore can you look on your newest video how did molly Weasley kill Bellatrixs she uses confringo because I just played the game and they used the same hand movment that she use at the end
Harry Potter Folklore I just found your channel. I love it so, so much. I am such a Potterhead at school, and your channel has shown me so many cool facts. Thank you so much.
Confringo is a fire shooting spell, Molly used a petrifying spell to freeze bellatrix then is debated on what spell she used to disfigure Belatrix, some believe it was Bomb-arda or even Reducto. If you want to see what Confringo looks like, Watch when Harry falls out of Hagrids hands in the Deathly Hallows. it is nothing like what Molly used on Belatrix.
I think Tom even feared love the most (probably his Bogart), as he was probably afraid of losing it. That's why he governed the death eaters through fear because he was sacred that people wouldn't follow or accept him because they liked him. Its sad but at the age of 60 something (can't believe he was a 60 year old going after a teenager) he should have tried to mature in thought and emotion. We cannot always blame the past. I guessed he also feared and hated death because it had taken away his own mother. Death had been so cruel to him so he wanted to flee from it, hence Voldemort.
I thought anyone born under the effects of a love potion couldn't feel happiness or love. What really locked this in for me is in the order of the phoenix when Tom has to leave Harrys body when Harry thinks about his happy memories it seemed as though it physically hurt tom.
I would say that the genetic makeup of the Gaunt family played a huge role in Tom's predisposition towards evil. Then of course there were Tom's own choices. His academic success and popularity could have mellowed him slightly but his obsession with power prevented that. While being conceived under a love potion, being brought up in the orphanage, and his mother dying did not help, I'd say the genetics and Tom's own choices/power obsession were the root of the evil.
I think Tom had all of these things going on. Had his mother lived he would had done her the same, disrespt her and make her bend to him will. Her death was to cut down on extensive back stories for the book. Harry Potter books have plenty of stories going on, her living just didnt stand up to be necessary.
I think people get so caught up in love potions and how offended it makes them they forget that he was in fact fine at first and much of the issue came from losing his mother and that loving care.
If love in the magical world is a permanent thing, then how was Bellatrix able to stop loving her sister Andromeda simply from marrying a muggle-born? They were close at one point, and the wizarding kind of love should make that hard to break.
At least some acknowledge our struggles in maintaining pure bloodlines. The only thing I wanted to do was to prevent magical blood from mixing with the muggle blood. But Dumbledore and Potter was way too enthusiastic about "diversity" that they made a war inevitable
Love the video! Concise, comprehensive, mind-blowing! As for your question I think a few factors to consider are his genetics: the Riddles were snobbish people who looked down on those lower than them, and his father was the worst of them. The Gaunts were violent, arrogant, and severely inbred, which indicates that these traits were in part hereditary. This genetic package, combined with his upbringing and the need to prove himself, made him the monster he became.
I can understand why he hated his own roots so much. He did not choose to be born with magic, nor to be born to a fanatic and sick family who were never for him. It's the same fact that he was born out of a love potion that all he could feel was hatred. In a way, Tom was destined to be the Dark Lord. No one else could have that void of heart of mercy. It's oddly sad and poetic in my opinion.
Why don't people often think of Narcissa and Lucius when they're thinking of loving relationships in the HPverse? Seems to me that their relationship is just as strong as Molly and Arthur. It'd take a strong loving relationship to not only stay together though the stress of the wizard wars, political dramas, Lucius' stint in Askaban, the strain of their son being used by Voldermort, the strain that Voldy put on their relationship. Through all that, they not only stayed together, but supported each other calmly and respectfully (in the last battle they were seen together searching for their son, their aims always in tandem when portrayed) but also to be able to teach their son love. (sorry in advance for typos - I didn't expect this to be so long) I think is shows that, even when the lovers are evil, they can still find love. And I also think that this is what differs between Narcissa and Bellatrix (who loved Voldy and not her actual husband). Draco was raised with corrupt morals, but he was loved in their own corrupt way, he experienced love. So it was, in a way, easier for him to turn good in the end, for the family to move away from Voldy, because they put the love of each other (family) before their love of power. Then when we look at Crabbe and Goyle (who's parents we don't know much about) but they don't seem to share that loved experience or that room for growth from good to bad. In extension, when you look at the cursed child, from what we learn about Draco's wife (which isn't much) there was enough to assume a love match. So Scorpio was born into a loving family, he was then raised in a manner more loving than that which Draco was raised in, though not perfectly loving as in perhaps Rose's case. But Scorpio has more love in him, so he is more 'good' then the generations of his family before him. I guess I'm saying that, in the HPverse, loving parents produce children who have to potential for love and are thus more powerful in the magical arts. So Voldy was twisted cos his folks weren't lovers, there was no love in his family history that is known of, so no love power that could seep though the generations (like a seed growing with each match) but also the love potion amplified that there was no love in the man, love didn't have a time to grow in him as his environment didn't allow for this to happen, so by the time he reached Hogwarts, his heart was closed - he was very powerful in anti-love (his power made stronger due to the love potion that seduce his parents). Another example (I'm enjoying myself too much here lol), look at Snape: raised in an unloving violent home, so prone towards evil, but with a glimmer of love (from his mother) which he was able to invest into his love of Lily, which ultimately enabled him to grown enjough to make sacrafices for good rather then evil. But he had no love of self I think, but that's a different matter. I also wonder if, in the HPverse, the love of the parents to the child in the early years, can help to indicate how powerful they will be in adulthood. Look at Ginny, Ron, Percy and Bill: Bill is clearly a powerful wizard, not at Dumbledore's level but he's got huge protental. Bill, the first child in newly married post war relationship for Molly and Artur, will have been doted on constantly by his mollycoddling loving mum and dad. By the time Percy came along, alot of that 'first love, post war, excitement' will have ebbed and reality set in somewhat, so Percy will have had a little less love (I'm not saying he was unloved, just that he didnt experience as much direct love as the elder siblings did). As such he wanted power (notice how those in the HPverse who dont have love seek power?), probably thinking he'd get love that way, if he got enough power. Then there is Ron, who got the least love of the 6 boys, who wanted to be better, to earn his mums affection, his power wasn't as strong, his confidence wasn't as strong. He attatched himself right away to Harry, who would give him some power and security (kinda like Peter to James but without the bad adult choices). Ron got enough love to be able to recognise and return the love of his friends, which in turn help him grow into a strong adult wizard, though not the most powerful, he certainly has the potential when he applys himself. Then there is Ginny. And anyone who's read the books knows that Ginny is a very powerful witch. In adulthood she could easily surpass her mother and McGonagall (the strongest adult female's portrayed in the HPverse - Bellatrix doesnt count cos she's evil - though side note, her love for her master made her very magically powerful), in magical strength. She was smothered in love by her mother, especially as a child, the baby of the family and the girl her mother had been longing. So it makes sense that her power will surpass that of her brothers. Other powerful figures who's parents we know of: The Dumbledores - powerful family with clearly expressed, if maybe not clearly understood by modern standards, love of each other and their children (the mother gave up her life for her daughter, the father gave up his freedom to protect his family. Alberforth, being the youngest, perhaps got a little more love then Albus and the fact that affection was focused more on his sister might explain Albus's early dabbles in darkness, but in the end love won out for him). Teddy's folks loved each other and were powerful, so safe to assume he will be also. Harry was loved deeply, he even got a year of direct loving parental contact (as they were all in hiding together), we know his grandparents loved his parents from how they're described (however limited) and so there was lots of love in the family line to sustain Harry through the lack of love shown by the Dursley's. He then gets buckets of love from friends in school and from Molly and Ginny as he grows. Hermione was clearly loved by her parents, who I also think loved each other by how they're mentioned, and she's very powerful. Hagrid, not loved by his mum but very much loved by his dad, so not the strongest wielder of traditional physical magics, but deeply good and strong in his own brand of magic (would be nice if HPF could go a video on how powerful Hagrid actually was, which was very, he's very undervalued for his power. For example, it takes alot to survive Askaban unbroken - unlike Sirius, Bellatrix or Lucius, Hagrid is the only person to come out of Askaban and fit back into the world again, almost instantly). So in conclusion. The strength of ones power in the HPverse comes from the love in their bloodline and family relationships. The more love in their bloodline or experiences, the more Good they are. Prediction: If Scorpio goes on to have a love marriage and then have love towards his kids, then his kids will be very powerful and good people.
0:45 Anakin Skywalker isn't that bad. Sidious is a better example. His parents and family didn't like him because he was 'different'. He grew up spoiled and ambitious and (psychopathic). Once he met Plagueis, his hunger intensified eventually craving POWER and killing his entire family to become a sith.
I agree with what you've said here. I also think a part of it is genetics from both sides of Tom's family. His mom's family had a strain of instability and insanity due to generations of inbreeding (GROSS!). And his father's family weren't model citizens themselves. He may have turned out a little bit better if his mother had been there for him and if he had known the truth behind his father leaving his mother, but I think he was already genetically predisposed to the traits he showed in the books and movies.
Blaise Zabini's mother was married multiple times. Only the husbands died leaving their money for her to spend. So I dont think that love is more magical in magical world. Maybe marriage is taken "more seriously" in the wizard community. Also HP was born in 1980, battle of Hogwadrs in 1998 ..in that times there was much lower divorce rate.......with all that said ..I do believe that use of love potion is important in Voldemort story.
I think it was a combination of things: The fact he was conceived due to a love potion, his mother's (and her family) was a lineage of inbred people, he was raised in an orphanage without a mother's love, his father's arrogance and hatred he inherited, the fact his mother chose death instead of her son, etc. You can't blame only one aspect. It's a sum of everything that made him like he was.
Tom Riddle did not know he was half blood until he was 16 years old when he did not find any trace of a Tom Riddle Snr at Hogwarts. But when he looked into the name Marvolo he found evidence of his grandfather, mother and uncle at Hogwarts. This lead him to take the trip to Little Hangleton where he found his uncle in the childhood home of his mother. Which is when upon his uncle telling him about the Riddle family that lived in the mansion on the hill near the graveyard, Tom stole his Uncle's wand and killed his father and grandparents. Then planted the wand back with his uncle to frame him for killing the Riddle's. After this point in Voldemort's life he created the name Lord Voldemort which is what those in his friend circle called him and kept the secret of his blood status to himself. Until it was revealed to Harry that Voldemort was half blood I believe Dumbledore was probably the only one to really know this information amongst a few others here and there.
How interesting he was a child during the second world war... He was 13 when it started, a student at Hogwarts and if he wasn't alowed to stay at school during the summer, than he may have sufferes from it in the muggle world. Maybe he saw horrible things... maybe the wizarding world let him down during this period and that is the root of his anger.
Although both Harry and Tom grew up with out a mother, Harry's mother willingly died for him where as Tom's mother just gave up, and plus he was conceived with out love for the poor thing never knew how to give love nor was ever the recipient of love.
Yes but Aniken skywalker only became evil because he was tricked. He was happy until he's had the dream of his wife dying. So he wanted to do anything he possibly could to protect her but with him doing so he went to the Darkside because of it. Love was ultimately his undoing for becoming evil.
No, Grindewald was close with being evil, but his goal was different. He wanted wizard society to be free from hiding and to become dominant but not to enslave non-wizards. Voldermort wanted power and imortality for him and him alone. The end.
Golden Sunshine True, but sixteen is considered "adult" in the UK even if you can't vote, get alcohol (unless with a meal) or purchase tobacco. Kinda messed up huh? I always liked that JKR kept it at age 17 in the wizarding world.
Hermione maybe wanted proof. Harry and Ron were quick to accuse Draco of things purely because Draco was a bully. (Heir of Slytherin thing in Chamber of Secrets.) Hermione didn't want to believe that Draco was a Death Eater unless Harry could prove it.
I think the more baffling question is why was Hermione so dismissive of the Deathly Hallows. She lives in a bloody magical world where anything is possible so why is it so far-fetched for her to think something like the deathly hallows could exist?
I think that harry did grow up with a mother's love. Remember lily's sacrifice lives on in him and that sacrifice was totally because she loved him. So harry is totally immersed every day in his mother's love. Merope literally just DIED so ergo no love for Tom. Plus she gave him the name of the guy who left him and the guy who made her own childhood absolute shite. How is that love?
TheSpacecraftX Yep. This was explored a lot in Order of the Phoenix, and the general conclusion was that Harry chose not to use his Parseltongue abilities and his difficult past for evil. Bad things happen, but it's how you approach it that counts.
I think ultimately the best of James and Lily's personalities came through in Harry and thus was fortunate for it. It really was a toss of the coin for Dumbledore to leave Harry with his abusive relatives.
TheSpacecraftX Some people use their bad upbringing to make them stronger and more humane as a person while others become bitter and want revenge for it. That part comes down to Personality which comes down to genes. Voldemort's bad upbringing made him think all muggles were evil. While with Harry's his bad upbringing still told the truth that evil-muggles only made up a small number of muggles.
TheSpacecraftX Some people use their bad upbringing to make them stronger and more humane as a person while others become bitter and want revenge for it. That part comes down to Personality which comes down to genes. Voldemort's bad upbringing made him think all muggles were evil. While with Harry's his bad upbringing still told the truth that evil-muggles only made up a small number of muggles.
He was messed up by his childhood. think about it. the way he was so against draco and his friends, seeing them as the bullies they are, because of dudley and his friends. The way he clung to sirius and dumbledore and the weasleys as family figures and mentors, because he grew up without any of that, and the way he is able to sympathize with dobby and other "victims" of bullying. he just shows the damage in a different way
Hey I was wondering if you could do a video on if Draco was the hero and Harry was the death eater because this question has come to me a few times I need to find out what would happen :)
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can you do a video on how wizards become great? are they born great? and are already naturally extra better than everybody? or is it their personalities (like being ambitious) that help them get to be a great wizard? ps: great videos! very good at explaining things. appreciate your vids all the way from new zealand!
If Harry didn't first meet Ron he might have ended up in Slytherin but I don't think Harry was ever really in danger of ending up like Tom. His parents loved him and died to protect him. Tom's mother abandoned him and he was conceived with love potion.
I think there are many factors. Merope used her pregnancy to try and make Tom Sr continue loving her after the potion, but the fact she used the potion to effectively rape and mind fuck a guy who blatantly didnt even like her in the first place made that a moot attempt. She gave up since Tom Jr wasnt really a thing to her, he was an object to further her plans to build her ideal life, and when it didnt work she gave up and died right after using the last of her energy to give birth and name her son after the man she has abused, and the man who had abused her. But this alone doesnt make a baby be evil. Rape happens IRL, mothers die in childbirth, children are sent to orphanages, and all 3 habe probably happened in the past multiple times. This doesn't make him evil. But ig does take away on block of support from his basic life. But the system failed him too. The orphanage he is in is cold and doesnt educate him or discipline him. He grows up his younger years in an environment where the only way he can be safe is via hurting people. But, again, this doesnt turn one evil. And then the school system fails also. Blood status bullshit is rampant in the halls, his previous attitude or big fish eats litle fish is rewarded and he is praised and told this is great. He never wants to be tge underdog and goes to absolute extreme lengths to achieve it, no matter the moral or spiritual cost. I think being an heir of slytherin made him think ge was owed something and that he was better than other wizards, the fact his mother and family was slighted by a muggle who let his mother die just fuelled his prejudice of muggles he already had as a child in the orphanage when they were his competition. Basically, the mugle and mage systems both failed him, they failed to save his mother from abuse as a young woman, they failed to stop her drugging and raping a muggle, they failed to find Tom Jr a home once his magic was apparent, they encouraged destructive behaviour and balatant racism. Tom Jr cant feel love because he was never, ever given love. Not even fom bellatrix, whose obsessisve enfatuation is the closest thing hes gotten as far as I have seen. The world encouraged him to be a monster so that is what he became.
Well actually, Voldemort's symptoms would suggest he's a psychopath. Unfortunately, psychopathy IS something you're born with, which means there was never a chance of a "good" Voldemort. At present, it's also impossible to fix. And that's NOW, let alone mental health at the time he grew up. Removing him from the environment, or getting him help, would do nothing. It was too late when he was born. A person born with psychopathy is incapable of feeling empathy, normal emotions, or of acting in anyone's interests except their own. Sound like Voldy? They're also really, really good at PRETENDING they're normal, until that behaviour no longer aligns with their goals. A.k.a. Voldy before he "turned fully evil". According to canon, there WAS no "before he was fully evil". That was just another mask he wore. The wiki even specifies how Riddle very quickly realised he was "careless" for showing Dumbledore so much of himself, because Dumbledore had realised he wasn't normal. That's exactly the way that a person with psychopathy would think. He was a young child at this point, and he was already wearing a mask.
What about the factor that Riddle simply liked enjoying seeing others suffer? Many serial killers start by torturing animals. The act of basic torture brings them joy.
To say there is no such thing as evil runs beyond mere naivete into stupidity, evil exists denying makes one vulnerable to inadvertently becoming enslaved by it. Evil is what evil is because evil does what evil does, and evil does what evil does because evil is what evil is.
There are parallels that can be drawn between tom riddle and Hitler. Hitler was part Jewish and he hated that about himself. I think Voldemort also hated his muggle half and they both looked to eradicate anything that had to do with what they hated about themselves. Added to the unquenchable Thirst for power and you have two people that have come as close to pure evil as they can. Hate and Power are a lethal combination.
Although it is claimed that Hitler had Jewish ancestry, we actually do not know. Hitler's father, originally called Alois Schiklgruber, was illegitimate. We do not know who his father was.
My education is in mental health counseling and I think that the Harry Potter books do a good job to show a believable story adding some mental health and emotion neglect aspects which are almost always present in Sociopathic individuals. He definitely couldn't love as a psychopath.🙁
@ 0:55 Oh I guarantee you there is definitely such a thing as evil people, who need no excuse for it, other than they just derive pleasure from causing chaos and pain to others.
I don't think Dumbledore and Grindlewald had desires to enslave the muggles but to merely rule more as kings. The difference being that they wanted to elevate everybody's life. Muggles having magical remedies and wizards/witches living openly being some of the benefits.
Voldemort goes to hogwarts becomes a Slytherin starts to become obsessed with the dark arts perhaps and Merope might have brought Voldemort up in pure blood supremacy and He might become the leader of the DEATH EATERS
Merope would most likely have sexually abused her son, because she was a rapist and stalker who was obsessed with Tom Riddle Senior. Her naming her son for him and wishing for him to have his father's face can not be a coincidence.
Some reason that play role 1. Love potion 2. His family background 3. When he open the chamber of secrets 4. When he finds that he is the Salazar generation 5. The fear of death force him to make horcruxes and when he split his souls there's no humanity left in him when he split his souls (the fear of death because of her mother maybe) they are the possible reason for him to become the dark wizards
His father's callousness, I reckon was also a contributing factor. Rowling has even agreed with you that if Merope had survived to care for him he probably would've turned out to be a much better person.
0:55 to be fair, there was more factors with anakin than stated here. The jedi council also distrusted anakin and weren't very helpful, as mace trying to kill sidious was the same as him killing dooku earlier in the film with the same justification that he was too dangerous to be left alive, even though it was against the jedi order.
Another thing about the love potion is that it is probably the main reason why Voldemort was so powerful. Being born an unnatural human also meant being born with unnaturally powerful magical ability. Also, his fear of death drove him to commit many horrific crimes as creating horcruxes was his way of conquering his greatest fear and doing so required dark magic.
I heard a theory that the reason why Tom can’t feel any love because it physically hurt him due to the fact that he was conceived via love potion. That’s why in the order of the phoenix, when he and dumbledore finished fighting and he was battling in harry’s mind, he left harry’s body because he could feel the pain of love which harry has a lot of (flashbacks of friends and family)
Lupin was going to leave Tonks and his baby, to be fair he did just think that a weir wolf would never be a fit father, but it did hint that couples in the wizarding world did separate!
Environment and Blood are both factors on how one becomes. Voldemort had both bad Environment and blood. His Mother was bad especially abusing the Love potion. Voldemort never was exposed to friends like Harry was (Ron and Hermione). Both Harry's parents were good especially his Mother. She was a lot like Hermione (Muggleborn, very smart, and compassionate). His father was a gifted wizard but arrogant. He was mean to Snape. Harry could have been as bad as Voldemort but with his Mother's blood and hanging out with the Weasleys and Hermione he chose the "light" side.
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Another factor is that he believed that his father abandoned his mother because he found out she was a witch and thus sought revenge on the Muggle world as a result, not knowing that it was in fact because Merope stopped using the love potion, believing that Tom Riddle Sr would by then have fallen in love with her anyway or else would stay for the child's sake
single mother created Voldemort
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Single parents and homosexual parents are also able to raise a loving child wth :'D
@@chrissi975 true!
@@chrissi975 Children raised without a father are much more likely to develope antisocial tendencies though and are much more likely to become criminals. Doesn't mean it's always the case or even happens most of the time, but the likelyhood is much greater.
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the Gaunts, a very ancient wizarding family noted for a vein of instability and violence that flourished through the generations due to their habit of marrying their own cousins. Voldemort was the grandson Marvolo always wanted
Except Marvolo would most likely have drowned his half-blooded grandson in infancy. Marvolo despised anything that was less than pureblood, and also anything that wasn't descended from Slytherin. There's no way that he would have allowed a halfblood to "stain" his bloodline.
Look if purebloods hate halfbloods too and death eaters a re all purebloods of course and voldemort is halfblood why does they work for their master
@@Shwiin it's most likely that his followers didn't know about his true parentage.
except for the fact that he was a half blood
@@TheYasmineFlower he did not drown himself, he disowned her and starved himself. Like, he did not leave the house and just stayed in here doing nothing until he died, after finding out the Merope had a child with a muggle.
Riddle/Voldemort display many of the attributes of a psychopath. Don't forget, that he was a Gaunt. The Gaunt's were the byproduct of generations of inbreeding. His great-uncle was a violent and abusive man. His son, Tom's uncle, clearly suffered from a similar violent streak. Riddle's muggle father was a selfish, egotistical narcissist (not necessarily a trait that would be passed on to a child), and Tom's mother most likely carried the genes that drove her brother and father into madness.
There is no reason to believe that Tom Riddle's environment (the orphanage) have contributed to his negative behavior. There was no evidence of abuse or mistreatment. His anti-social behavior was evident from early childhood. He penchant for cruelty and enjoyment of torture was evident when he was a small child.
Tom Riddle was clever enough to conceal his mental illness from some of his teachers. Dumbledore was always suspicious of him, but tried to give him the benefit of the doubt
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Why was Tom's father a bad person? He was raped, striped away from his free will without doing anything that even remotely deserved it. No one deserves that treatment. He was in love with another woman, but Merope just
While all the things you mentioned definitely play a part in Voldemort's evil, He was also the product of a thousand years of second hand incest. The Guants married their cousins to maintain their "blood purity" and it drove them mad, Similar to the Targaryens. His conception through a love potion "False Love" you could say, his bad environment of power and ambition as well as elitist thinking, all caused a perfect storm to create the most evil wizard of all time. The evil fruit, born of a twisted tree, grown from poisoned soil.
Because motherly love is such a theme in the books I cannot buy Bellatrix having a child. The timing is off and there is no sign of room for it fitting into the existing narrative. Helena Bonham Carter even said that inflicting pain is her only joy and that she doesn't get the Weasley family at all. It is also goes to the reason why Tom/Voldemort can't grasp that Narcissa lied to him about Harry Potter dying. I know the author only approved the script versus wrote much of it. She probably was too busy with Fantastic Beasts to think about it hugely. I think the sorting and how his childhood made Voldemort makes sense. Good job.
Tom Riddle was a politician. Very early on he saw the truth of this world - that power is what ultimately guides the fate of nations. He manipulated and schemed in a Machiavellian plot to see himself empowered, playing on the base fears and prejudices of those around him. He wanted to position himself as the commander of the entire world because he thought that it was his rightful place as the most powerful. In his conceitedness, he overlooked more powerful forces which brought him low.
J.K. Rowling is very much idealistic, left-wing and a very sympathetic individual. It's only natural that her villain would be everything she despises - a cynical manipulator without a care for anyone or anything but himself.
I disagree with the plot being Machiavellain, as that would imply that there was an intention for some good to come out of it. The ends justify the means and all that. Machiavellian people often believe themselves to see "the bigger picture." Voldemort's picture did not extend beyond himself.
Honorable Judge His greater good would have been the purity of the wizarding world, essentially. A place where the magical elite would rule over the less magical normal ones.
***** Which contradicts the statement that he only cares about his own selfish agendas. This applies, even if he only cares for the very small minority of pure bloods, which we do know is more like a means to an end for his own power, rather than an actual political agenda.
In addition, the greater good in Machiavellism is intended to benefit the majority. 1000 lives to save 2000. One million to save two million, etc.
Machiavellism is largely based on pure logic and is highly morally ambigious. Voldemort? Not so much.
Honorable Judge Tom Riddle did not care about none .He basically uses ideas from others to develop his own terrible power .Magical world domination comes from Gellert Grindelwald and the idea of pure blooded wizardry from Slytherin himself .Also Voldemort did never realised that he was only saved from expellation by Armando Dippet to have no other Dark wizard around .I mean Dumbledore understands Parsel .He would have even heard Tom talking to the Basilisk .Such stupidity is not macchiavellian .But many other wizards are more Macchiavellian , Grindelwald , Snape or Barty Crouch Junior .And from other universes Palpatine , Dooku and Snoke .Tom is to easy to predict and Counter .He is easily betrayed by people around him ,without noticing it .Regulus , Severus , Narcissa did it and Voldemort never realised .He also undermines his own power by defining himself as an abnomination .Thats definitely not Macchiavellian .Voldemort rules solely with fear .People who did not fear him could easily undermine his power .Voldemort solely thinks what is good for himself .He never understands power truly and is foiled by his servants .He even do not understand the situation of his horcruxes truly .And what is more unmachiavellian than do not try to use an enemy against himself or to not try to bring enemys to your side a thing Voldemort is incapabel of .While Grindelwald motto is " For the Greater Good" , Voldemorts would be" I decide who is to die ,because i cheated dead "
Johannes Bruellmann You're barking at the wrong tree right now. I argued against Voldemort being Machiavellian, or even remotely caring about anyone else than himself and his own power.
J.K Rowling said herself that the point of him being born with his father under the love potion is just a metaphor. She also said that if his mother stayed alive, he wouldn't have turned out that way, love potion or not.
Well then she should've written him more carefully. Because she's written him as a psychopath, and psychopathy is something you're BORN with. You can't cure or avoid it. Either she doesn't understand how to write evil characters' backstories without making them psychopaths, or she doesn't understand what a psychopath is.
Besides, Merope was clearly an evil and self serving person herself - she literally brainwashed and raped a guy. And all the evil in Voldemort's family is on HER side. So why on Earth would he be different if she had raised him, assuming he's a product of his environment? That's almost a WORSE environment to raise a child in. At least when you're in an orphanage, you're aware of the fact that this isn't exactly a normal environment for children. It's made very clear that this is the exception, not the rule, and that most kids grow up with parents. Which can at least give you hope that it's different with parents.
When your PARENTS are evil, that's ALL you know. There is no "different". That is your normal.
LordofFullmetal well his mother was the product of inbreeding so who’s to say that his instability didn’t come from there
That you are born with psychopathy is not universally accepted and still debated. These is at least one case where one identical twin is a psychopath and the other one isn`t.
Inbreeding doesn`t lead to instability per definition. Egyptian pharaos practiced full incest for many generations and rarely seem to have been harmed by that.
No in the books it mentions that love potion isn’t a proper form of love so Tom Riddle turned out that way
That's why Dumbledore chose to leave Harry with his Family. Part of the reason anyway.... he gave him a relatively peaceful childhood instead of having him in the spot light as the boy who lived. Sure we look at the Dursleys and think them in whole horrible people, not mentioning the Harry as Horcrux theory... but they took him in and provided for him anyway... He had structures Tom Riddle never did and structures he would have never had if he was exclusively brought up among magical peoples.
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Because I think his aunt loved him deep down like deep down she did with her sister , not where near as much as Dudley and her husband but it was there .
Harry seemed to turn out a pretty healthy individual. So he wasn't that badly neglected .
Peter the Great 2.0 and the protection aunt petunia gave him
I think its worth discussing that they might have felt there was no option but to say yes... If a powerful wizard came to my door and said "Your sister and her husband were murdered by another powerful wizard" I'd be concerned the implications if I said no. Who might harm and blame me for trying to stay out of this mess with my small child and husband? There's no real way out when you perceive others can tell you what to do and you HAVE to participate because THEY (wizards) know where you live and can stop by anytime...
Wasn’t there a thing about how the protection Harry’s mother gave him would work until age 18, so long as he was with his family? Which is why death eaters never infiltrated the house while he was growing up?
Whether or not you believe that genetics plays a role in bad behaviour in the real world is irrelevant here, but clearly JK Rowling plays up his bloodline, and the cruelty throughout. Tom is not exposed to this, which means he is not raised in the same environment, yet still becomes evil.
I think it would be more realistic to say that his upbringing heightened the development of underlying behaviours he was born with... plus the love potion, and the inability to love is meant to serve as a 'magical' and easy explanation for it.
Alex Craske I see what you're saying I agree
I never even considered before how the use of love potion could have affected Voldemort. Makes perfect sense from the way you explain it.
Another factor I think may have contributed to his evil is not just the lack of true parental love but also a partner to love or his own children. Take the Malfoy couple. They're horrible people, happy to see others suffer, yet in the end it's Narcissa's love for Draco that makes her betray Voldemort and then Lucius's love for his wife and son that makes him join them when you see them walking away at the end of the last film.
Lots of good single people out there of course, but just maybe if Tom Riddle had found someone else to love (like how Snape loved Lily) it might have changed him.
elamplough1 He wasn't capable of loving anyone due to being conceived under a love potion
MrMapleBar As well as his families bad genetics and being the final heir of Salazar Slytherin
+matthew mann Genetics don't take away our ability to love, and being the heir of a guy who lived a thousand years ago doesn't predetermine anything either. No one ever called Slytherin unable to love.
@@headlessguy98 rowling stated that him being conceived under the influence of a love potion was a metaphor, not a reason as to why he became the way he did.
@@headlessguy98 Rowling stated herself that it was just a metaphor. Hence, doesn't really affect his ability to love.
Tom did felt for the longest time that his father was 'magical' , and that his mother was just a tramp and a muggle to boot. It wasn't until he went in search of answers after Hogwarts that he learned that his father was muggle and his mother was a witch. But when he went in search of her roots he was very dissappointed in their status [being poor & so on.] He did not realize until later that his mother had used a love potion on Tom Riddle Senior.....but that did not stop him from killing Tom riddle senior as revenge for breaking his mother's heart, [Ah what we do for love!] So he stole the symbols of their so-called power....the ring and the locket - even killing the owner of the locket and his grandfather in order to get the ring.[framing the house elf and his uncle for the murders!
Fay Schneider I didn’t realize that he ever realized that his mother used a love potion on his father. I read the books tears ago when I was still a kid however and I wasn’t the biggest fan of the writing style so I’m pretty sure I skim read. I definitely need to re-read them.
I don’t think Voldemort knew about the love potion.
Love is not that easy:
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Cho and Harry
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there's also another psychological side to this. Since he was in such an orphanage since he was a baby, I'm guessing he was never hugged, cuddled or shown any kind of tender or gentleness. Harry was actually given that for a brief period by Lily and James, while Tom received none whatsoever and continued on throughout childhood.
As you said, Harry and Voldemort grew up in similar environments, I would even say that Harry's upbringing was even worse than Voldemort's seeing how he was mistreated by his adoptive family. Yet they went down such different paths. Voldemort chose to go down the dark path of his own accord.
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I disagree. Petunia loved Lily even though she was jealous of her being a witch. Remember that Lily & Snape (when children)found a letter Petunia had written to Dumbledore begging to attend Hohwarts and his very kind reply.
Petunia would have cared for Harry as a baby--she could not be seen not doing the right thing. Appearances were EVERYTHING to the Dursleys. Recall his business dinner spoiled by Dobbie's hover charm on the pudding, and the incident with Vernon's sister, Aunt Marge? The Dursleys were terrible to Harry but he did see expressions of love towards Dudley, and how rotten Dudley was being so spoiled.
Being raised from birth in an orphanage was much colder emotionally in the 1920's, not long after WW1 and no one to rock, hold or comfort you. Tom would have realised quickly that he was entirely on his own. He learned at an early age that to incite fear made him less of a target. Harry had only to contend with Dudley and his parents as not much is known about Harry's school experiences prior to Hogwarts except for having to wear Dudley's huge, re-dyed hand me downs. Tom Riddle would have had 30-60 other children to contend with 24/7 in the orphanage and the Matron there was probably uncaring as she had a penchant for liquor so could have gone about her duties in a stupor.
Although Tom was a bright student at Hogwarts, dont think for one moment that this helped him. He was most likely teased coming from an orphanage as he did, and he relied on a special fund at Hogwarts to purchase even the essential school supplies and uniforms. Remember how Draco taunted Ron the very first night for his hand me down robes? Tom Riddle probably experienced much the same. He could not trust anyone, not completely whereas Harry came into his own during his first year at Hogwarts, making friends with many, being made seeker of the Gryffindor team, and being shown kindness by adults-first Hagrid, then Molly Weasley, Dumbledore..McGonagall.
Sorry about being so lengthy. This is just my opinion.
In the series JKR actually has Harry and Voldemort go through very rough childhoods (and rough in similar ways) and yet all they turn out to be completely different people and this actual disperses the idea (within the story) that a hard environment turn u into a villian
The fact of the matter is that love and the magic of love is a very real difference. Despite them being dead, Harry had a connection to his parents to fall back on, in that he knew that his parents died to protect him and left a final powerfully magical evidence of that love, in the form of the protective spell.
That's one hell of a memento, and Voldemort never got anything like that to remember his parents by, in fact he was entirely abandoned and left to rot in an orphanage, because that was the best life Merope Gaunt had left to give her son.
There's a VAST difference between "I'm alone in the world because my parents loved me enough to die to keep me alive" and "I'm alone in the world because my parents abandoned me and left me to fend for myself."
Or did you notice that Lord Voldemort schemed not just to come back to human form, which he could have done with the blood of nearly every wizard in Britain, but demanded Harry's blood, to claim that love magic birthright for himself? While he told himself that the scheme was to make himself more powerful... that was clearly only partially true.
hagamapama, I agree but let's also nnot forget that Harry had at least 15 months with his parents while Tom Riddle had been abandoned by both of his parents before he was even one day old. The first year in a child's life is a very crucial time in terms of attachment. So, Harry had had time to experience love and security in his relationship with his parents. Tom Riddle however grew up in an orphanage in the 1920's where he had no chance to be securely attached to anyone.
Agreed, and if anything that matters more in the wizarding world where love wields actual magical power.
Also, she may not have shown it, but Petunia did love Harry in her own way, it's what kept him safe.
I actually believe that Voldemort's evil paths wasn't because he grew up without his parents love even though it's true that his life would have been different if his mother had raised him. however I also think that it came from himself, dumbledore said it too... he was just 11, when he chose severe punishments for the other children from the orphanage. he wanted to be different due to his arrogance, which I think he inherited from his father ...
Love this stuff! Please make a video on what you think would have happened if Dumbledore and Grindlewald had succeeded in their plan to enslave the muggles.
Excellent suggestion, I'll definitely do that :)
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Get that Grindelwald thing out of Harry Potter please
harry did have a mother molly weasley was a mother for him if you read the books it is so clear to understand that the weasleys are his family for him he didn't just save arthur because of ron but he saves him for all of the weasleys he wanted arthur with him on the ministery and molly took care for him like he was her own son he had the love of a family somthing tom never had yes both they grew up without the love of their own family but at the moment harry meets the weasleys he found the love of a family and after the prisoner of azkaban sirius and remus are there to for him my point his harry found love from familly not his own but still tom riddle never found love not even by slidderich he couldn't make real friends only servants
Seems Rowling didn't see it that way, or she would've killed the Weasleys. She specifically said the reason she killed Sirius was because she didn't want Harry to have parental figures.
Your Mom's Creepy Uncle literally no ?? molly loves harry as her own son and i think that harry appreciates and loves her for that. when it's harry's 17th birthday molly gives him a watch and in the book it says that HE hugged HER but not just because of the watch, but because of everything she's done for him. he probably acts like that around her because that's how kids act around their mothers usually,, your impressions are wrong.
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I love how you made the comparison to Star Wars without putting too much emphasis into it.
Tom was mental unhinged an egotistical insane. What he needed was mental help and to be removed from the orpanage. The fact they left a magical child in such a public place. Is a crime its self. As Tom could have lost his #%&* and done a lot of damage.
Based on Voldemort's symptoms and early behaviour, I'm pretty sure he was an actual psychopath; and sad to say, but you can't really HELP a psychopath. A psychopath is someone literally born without the ability to feel love - a.k.a. Voldemort's exact problem - and there's nothing any psychologist can do about that. Even with our MODERN mental health science, let alone the time period Riddle grew up in, psychopaths are basically doomed from birth.
Also, I'm gonna assume a LOT of magical children during that time period were growing up in that environment and, you know, NOT turning evil? It makes no sense to assume Riddle was the only magical child in that position. Clearly there was almost no precedent for what he did, which would be why no one saw it coming. Dumbledore was unsettled, but he was unaware of how FAR Riddle was willing to go. In most children with psycopathy, you can't necessarily TELL what's wrong with them. You just know something is.
In fact, it only gets harder once those kids grow up. As they get older, people with psychopathy learn to PRETEND they have normal human emotions. You could know a psychopath right now and not realise unless they snap and kill someone. So there's no reason anyone should have known what Voldemort was.
+LordofFullmetal Afaik, the "diagnosis" of psychopathy is called into question these days and not actually accepted as real. There is NO SUCH THING as a child that is doomed from birth. The only thing that POTENTIALLY dooms a child from birth is if the people around it keep pretending that it is so. A mindfuck like that leaves it's marks.
But no child is doomed from birth just by it's genetics. That's not how reality works.
And it's very doubtful that many magical children grew up in loveless institutions where they were hated for the "weird things" they could do. Some muggleborns, perhaps, but most muggle children didn't live in orphanages, so statistically, it would have been very few muggleborns. And children with wizarding relatives would have been spared an institution because wizards and witches are almost all related in some way, resulting in at least some family members or friends of family left to take responsibility for a child that lost it's parents.
Dumbledore was in no way unaware of the fact that Tom was a troubled child. But he chose to ignore it. He chose to believe an adult in a position of power over a child that was mistrustful of adults. The signs that Tom Riddle was not given any love, care or guidance were NEON FUCKING RED in his face, but he chose to do nothing.
Tom Riddle was not a psychopath. He was a child who saw that no one would look out for him, so he would have to do it all by himself. Of course that made it difficult for him to connect with others. But he could have been helped if only someone had stood up for him.
But Dumbledore saw all the signs and he did nothing. The only one whose lack of emotions should be called out is Dumbledore. He was the adult. It was his job to do something to help his students. But he chose to do nothing. And people choose to defend him for it.
Seriously. He wasn't even sent to an orphanage for magic users. He was sent to an orphanage with muggle children who'd stand no chance against him. He already killed their pets and made people do things.
Only Dumbledore is responsible for Tom becoming Voldemort! Poor Tom! Stupid Dumbledore!
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I think the two main factors that lead to Voldemort's evil were his parents. A lot of children who had parents that commited suicide grow up hating weakness, not just physical weakness but the emotional and mental weakness that could lead to their parents taking their own lives. Voldemort's mom was frail and weak and basically gave up living before her death. It's not a stretch that Voldemort would percieve weakness as a cause of her death and grow to hate it just as a child who had a parent that commited suicide. Also he had a muggle father who abandoned his mother and him, his unborn child so of course he hated his father and possibly (by extension) all muggles, and meeting his uncle who let him know about his bloodline to Salazar Slytherin certainly didn't help as it would have played right into his pride that he was greater then anyone else, his hatred of muggles and muggle borns, and his sense of entitlement, after all Salazar was practically royalty why should he be a poor orphan boy? He should have inherited greatness but since that didn't happen he'd make his own inheritance. That being my belief on that subject I'd like to take a poin on what you said. There is evil and actually 3 types. The type you mentioned is 'unperceived evil'. Unperceived evil is where they do evil things but think they're doing good, like a terrorist who kills a lot of innocent people but only because they were brainwashed into thinking that all the people they are killing are pure evil and by killing them they're destroying evil for Alla. So in their eyes they are good and what they're doing is for a good cause. Then we have 'crazy evil'. This is the type of evil where you don't think you're doing good or evil but you simply can't grasp the concept of either one or you can grasp the concept but don't have the ability to care as you lack the ability to feel love, compassion or guilt. The last kind of evil is 'true evil' this is evil where a person knows the difference between right and wrong and knows what they're doing is evil but does it anyway because their greed, wrath, lust, pride, or envy are stronger then there love. Anyone think those things sound familiar? Then you're probably familiar with the 7 deadly sins. There's also gluttony and sloth but these are more likely to prevent you from doing good then driving you to commit evil so as I've already said before another topic for another day. Greed is about the most common cause of true evil, why do people rob banks, snatch purses, or mug people? For money! The person wants money and decides they can get a lot of it by just stealing it. Wrath can also lead to true evil, someone wrongs you and gets away with it and you just can't move on you need revenge and you don't care how far you have to go to get it and if others get hurt in the process so be it. Hatred and prejudice can also come into play here, these three things can feed off each other or even mimic each other almost flawlessly. Lust can lead to some pretty bad things too. Look at Helen of Troy for instance, a man wanted to obtain the most beautiful woman in the world and finds her but she's married, so be kidnaps her and starts a war! Even David commited an act of evil by sending a woman's husband to die in battle so he could take her as his own! Sex slaves and prostition both stem from lust and neither lead to anything good. Pride has lead to evil many a time throughout history, one could argue this trait can also belong with crazy evil since enough pride can make someone feel like they are worth so much more then everybody else rules don't apply to them. This can also feed into prejudice which as earlier pointed out feeds hatred and rage which in turn can also feed and mimic each other leading someone to greater and greater forms of evil. Finally we come to envy, envy is the desire to obtain something that belongs to someone else. Envy can lead to greed, wrath, or lust which in turn can lead to evil. Is it really any wonder why these qualities are considered sinful? True evil often comes in segments, someone doesn't want to be evil at first but they start to make a compromise or a justification, and it works out so well for them they make another, and another and before they know it they fall so far down they don't even need justification to compromise anymore. True evil often has a very bad wake up call when someone takes a moment to stop and look back on what they've done. Unless they are crazy evil the guilt can be overwhelming, that moment of 'what have I done?' Anyways, that's what I believe are the three forms of evil.
Also, Harry did have his mother's love, even if it was only for a short time. Tom never had it. I think growing up in an orphanage was a factor as, even though the Dursleys treated Harry poorly, he still grew up in a family environment.
It is the choices we make that are important. Another boy, who grew up with a muggle father and a mother who was a witch and lived an early life of neglect in a household wracked with violence, was Severus Snape. He never entirely lost his moral compass and due to his abiding love for Lily Potter became a silent hero of the HP saga.
I think his family history comes into play as well. I have a similar personality to my great grandmother, even though i know very little about her. I noticed that Voldermort seems to have a similar personality to his grandfather, even though he never met him.
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4:38 unlike some villians, his cold heartes nature wasn't by choice. The only actual cold hearted villian from birth I know is Valkorion from star Wars
Voldemort actually shows various signs and symptoms of psychopathy, which would imply that the "love potion" theory is pretty close to being true. A psyhopath is a person born without the ability to feel empathy or love. For this reason, they act ONLY in their own interests at all times; they literally can't comprehend the idea of just being nice for the sake of it. EVERYTHING they do is to further their own goals, because they don't know anything else. This leads to a tendency to treat other people as objects and servants, because you don't understand them and thus it's really easy to dehumanise them.
Psychopaths are also capable of learning how to PRETEND they're normal, when doing so suits their goals. Tons of psychopaths who have ended up murdering people lived completely normal lives for years beforehand; with friends, and family, none of whom ever knew there was something wrong until it was too late.
How much does all that sound like Voldemort? But here's the thing: even with modern mental health science, it's impossible to cure psychopathy. If you're a psychopath, there is no hope for you. That's basically how it's treated in the mental health community. And that's NOW, let alone decades ago when Tom Riddle was a child. So assuming he's a psychopath, it's useless to sit here going "if they'd done this, it would've saved him". Following his behavioural patterns, there IS no saving him.
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I agree that good the line between and evil depends on our views, except Umbridge she's evil.
It was indeed woldemorts choice to do the things he did but he obviously didnt have much to cling to other than his lonliness and void which made him very ignorant that caused his attack of punishment. It is really heartbreaking to see
I feel sorry for his mother..never felt love from her family, nor from the man she loved..🙁
1:33 I have never considered that his evilness may have been rooted by being conceived under the influenced of the love potion. i think it was being in the orphanage from birth no love. (I don't believe it has to be from the mother specifically just love in general another person would have done the job as well). From the get go, He was in the orphanage his care would be like this. In the 1920s babies would be looked after harshly especially in orphanages as there is less adults to look after them. He would only be picked up to be fed every 4 hours, no eye contact, no talking to, no cuddles. In between feedings he would be put in his pram that is it. More likely would not be allowed to leave pram until much older. When he would grow into a playpen. Then after that moved out. But no hugs, cuddles, ever. Yeah would have had to deal with things on his own. Be self sufficient. He was also very genetically malformed if it was not for his muggle's DNA being so inbred he would not have lived otherwise. And violence tendencies can be genetic in overly inbred dogs so it would make sense a human can be effected the same way.
He was evil because his mother, merope gaunt fed his father a love potion and since his birth was based off of a love potion, he could not feel love or friendship.
I really don't think that wizard love is different from muggle love. Love is not a form of magic, but it can be used to create powerful magic, such as Lily's sacrifice creating a powerful (yet very specific) protection spell for Harry. An example of how wizard love is identical to muggle love is when Harry was first in love with Cedric's girlfriend and then later had a falling out with her. It isn't any different. The very invention of love potions is another example. If it was so different then there'd be no need for such a thing. I'm convinced that it's everything to do with how Voldimort was brought up as well as his decision to live forever.
As for the characters being set in stone from their childhood, I'd like to point out that Dumbledor himself flies right in the face of this. In his back-story, Dumbledor was set on the path to becoming a less than favorable person, himself, but then further events in his life changed who he was, not completely, but enough. He knew that he was a power-hungry control freak and though it took the death of his sister for him to change, he did realize that he needed to be better than he was. Harry was also struggling with anger quite often, whether you consider it his fault or not, and had to occasionally be set back onto the right path.
But the idea Dumbledore being a champion of Muggleborns and Muggles like is claimed is based on senseless conjuncture . We have no evidence he changed his views at all and saw Muggles as deserving equal rights .
On the other hand I think Magical / Muggle marriages were some of the toughest of all . It would have required a lot of trust . And it's supprising at how well they seem to work out in the Harry Potter world
Thanks for the great video. I have always wanted to know how the love potion effected voldemort. There were alot of contributing factor to voldemort's evil but in the end he chose that path himself.
But that isn't all that accurate. Yes, people choose their path, but which path they choose depends on which paths they see. And if circumstances and other people block the view to other paths, then it's no wonder when they choose a particular one.
If anyone had helped Tom Riddle see other paths that were open to him, he could have had a real choice. As it is, he had no real choice, because he didn't actually see his options.
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Confringo is a fire shooting spell, Molly used a petrifying spell to freeze bellatrix then is debated on what spell she used to disfigure Belatrix, some believe it was Bomb-arda or even Reducto. If you want to see what Confringo looks like, Watch when Harry falls out of Hagrids hands in the Deathly Hallows. it is nothing like what Molly used on Belatrix.
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I think Tom even feared love the most (probably his Bogart), as he was probably afraid of losing it. That's why he governed the death eaters through fear because he was sacred that people wouldn't follow or accept him because they liked him. Its sad but at the age of 60 something (can't believe he was a 60 year old going after a teenager) he should have tried to mature in thought and emotion. We cannot always blame the past. I guessed he also feared and hated death because it had taken away his own mother. Death had been so cruel to him so he wanted to flee from it, hence Voldemort.
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I thought anyone born under the effects of a love potion couldn't feel happiness or love. What really locked this in for me is in the order of the phoenix when Tom has to leave Harrys body when Harry thinks about his happy memories it seemed as though it physically hurt tom.
I would say that the genetic makeup of the Gaunt family played a huge role in Tom's predisposition towards evil. Then of course there were Tom's own choices. His academic success and popularity could have mellowed him slightly but his obsession with power prevented that. While being conceived under a love potion, being brought up in the orphanage, and his mother dying did not help, I'd say the genetics and Tom's own choices/power obsession were the root of the evil.
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I think Tom had all of these things going on. Had his mother lived he would had done her the same, disrespt her and make her bend to him will. Her death was to cut down on extensive back stories for the book. Harry Potter books have plenty of stories going on, her living just didnt stand up to be necessary.
I think people get so caught up in love potions and how offended it makes them they forget that he was in fact fine at first and much of the issue came from losing his mother and that loving care.
If love in the magical world is a permanent thing, then how was Bellatrix able to stop loving her sister Andromeda simply from marrying a muggle-born? They were close at one point, and the wizarding kind of love should make that hard to break.
I actually think Voldemort doesn't believe whole-heartily in the pure-blood cause. He believes in wizard domination of muggles
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At least some acknowledge our struggles in maintaining pure bloodlines. The only thing I wanted to do was to prevent magical blood from mixing with the muggle blood. But Dumbledore and Potter was way too enthusiastic about "diversity" that they made a war inevitable
Love the video! Concise, comprehensive, mind-blowing! As for your question I think a few factors to consider are his genetics: the Riddles were snobbish people who looked down on those lower than them, and his father was the worst of them. The Gaunts were violent, arrogant, and severely inbred, which indicates that these traits were in part hereditary. This genetic package, combined with his upbringing and the need to prove himself, made him the monster he became.
I can understand why he hated his own roots so much. He did not choose to be born with magic, nor to be born to a fanatic and sick family who were never for him. It's the same fact that he was born out of a love potion that all he could feel was hatred.
In a way, Tom was destined to be the Dark Lord. No one else could have that void of heart of mercy. It's oddly sad and poetic in my opinion.
Why don't people often think of Narcissa and Lucius when they're thinking of loving relationships in the HPverse? Seems to me that their relationship is just as strong as Molly and Arthur. It'd take a strong loving relationship to not only stay together though the stress of the wizard wars, political dramas, Lucius' stint in Askaban, the strain of their son being used by Voldermort, the strain that Voldy put on their relationship. Through all that, they not only stayed together, but supported each other calmly and respectfully (in the last battle they were seen together searching for their son, their aims always in tandem when portrayed) but also to be able to teach their son love.
(sorry in advance for typos - I didn't expect this to be so long)
I think is shows that, even when the lovers are evil, they can still find love. And I also think that this is what differs between Narcissa and Bellatrix (who loved Voldy and not her actual husband). Draco was raised with corrupt morals, but he was loved in their own corrupt way, he experienced love. So it was, in a way, easier for him to turn good in the end, for the family to move away from Voldy, because they put the love of each other (family) before their love of power. Then when we look at Crabbe and Goyle (who's parents we don't know much about) but they don't seem to share that loved experience or that room for growth from good to bad.
In extension, when you look at the cursed child, from what we learn about Draco's wife (which isn't much) there was enough to assume a love match. So Scorpio was born into a loving family, he was then raised in a manner more loving than that which Draco was raised in, though not perfectly loving as in perhaps Rose's case. But Scorpio has more love in him, so he is more 'good' then the generations of his family before him. I guess I'm saying that, in the HPverse, loving parents produce children who have to potential for love and are thus more powerful in the magical arts.
So Voldy was twisted cos his folks weren't lovers, there was no love in his family history that is known of, so no love power that could seep though the generations (like a seed growing with each match) but also the love potion amplified that there was no love in the man, love didn't have a time to grow in him as his environment didn't allow for this to happen, so by the time he reached Hogwarts, his heart was closed - he was very powerful in anti-love (his power made stronger due to the love potion that seduce his parents).
Another example (I'm enjoying myself too much here lol), look at Snape: raised in an unloving violent home, so prone towards evil, but with a glimmer of love (from his mother) which he was able to invest into his love of Lily, which ultimately enabled him to grown enjough to make sacrafices for good rather then evil. But he had no love of self I think, but that's a different matter.
I also wonder if, in the HPverse, the love of the parents to the child in the early years, can help to indicate how powerful they will be in adulthood. Look at Ginny, Ron, Percy and Bill: Bill is clearly a powerful wizard, not at Dumbledore's level but he's got huge protental. Bill, the first child in newly married post war relationship for Molly and Artur, will have been doted on constantly by his mollycoddling loving mum and dad. By the time Percy came along, alot of that 'first love, post war, excitement' will have ebbed and reality set in somewhat, so Percy will have had a little less love (I'm not saying he was unloved, just that he didnt experience as much direct love as the elder siblings did). As such he wanted power (notice how those in the HPverse who dont have love seek power?), probably thinking he'd get love that way, if he got enough power. Then there is Ron, who got the least love of the 6 boys, who wanted to be better, to earn his mums affection, his power wasn't as strong, his confidence wasn't as strong. He attatched himself right away to Harry, who would give him some power and security (kinda like Peter to James but without the bad adult choices). Ron got enough love to be able to recognise and return the love of his friends, which in turn help him grow into a strong adult wizard, though not the most powerful, he certainly has the potential when he applys himself. Then there is Ginny. And anyone who's read the books knows that Ginny is a very powerful witch. In adulthood she could easily surpass her mother and McGonagall (the strongest adult female's portrayed in the HPverse - Bellatrix doesnt count cos she's evil - though side note, her love for her master made her very magically powerful), in magical strength. She was smothered in love by her mother, especially as a child, the baby of the family and the girl her mother had been longing. So it makes sense that her power will surpass that of her brothers.
Other powerful figures who's parents we know of: The Dumbledores - powerful family with clearly expressed, if maybe not clearly understood by modern standards, love of each other and their children (the mother gave up her life for her daughter, the father gave up his freedom to protect his family. Alberforth, being the youngest, perhaps got a little more love then Albus and the fact that affection was focused more on his sister might explain Albus's early dabbles in darkness, but in the end love won out for him). Teddy's folks loved each other and were powerful, so safe to assume he will be also. Harry was loved deeply, he even got a year of direct loving parental contact (as they were all in hiding together), we know his grandparents loved his parents from how they're described (however limited) and so there was lots of love in the family line to sustain Harry through the lack of love shown by the Dursley's. He then gets buckets of love from friends in school and from Molly and Ginny as he grows. Hermione was clearly loved by her parents, who I also think loved each other by how they're mentioned, and she's very powerful. Hagrid, not loved by his mum but very much loved by his dad, so not the strongest wielder of traditional physical magics, but deeply good and strong in his own brand of magic (would be nice if HPF could go a video on how powerful Hagrid actually was, which was very, he's very undervalued for his power. For example, it takes alot to survive Askaban unbroken - unlike Sirius, Bellatrix or Lucius, Hagrid is the only person to come out of Askaban and fit back into the world again, almost instantly).
So in conclusion. The strength of ones power in the HPverse comes from the love in their bloodline and family relationships. The more love in their bloodline or experiences, the more Good they are.
Prediction: If Scorpio goes on to have a love marriage and then have love towards his kids, then his kids will be very powerful and good people.
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0:45 Anakin Skywalker isn't that bad. Sidious is a better example. His parents and family didn't like him because he was 'different'. He grew up spoiled and ambitious and (psychopathic). Once he met Plagueis, his hunger intensified eventually craving POWER and killing his entire family to become a sith.
I agree with what you've said here. I also think a part of it is genetics from both sides of Tom's family. His mom's family had a strain of instability and insanity due to generations of inbreeding (GROSS!). And his father's family weren't model citizens themselves. He may have turned out a little bit better if his mother had been there for him and if he had known the truth behind his father leaving his mother, but I think he was already genetically predisposed to the traits he showed in the books and movies.
Blaise Zabini's mother was married multiple times. Only the husbands died leaving their money for her to spend. So I dont think that love is more magical in magical world. Maybe marriage is taken "more seriously" in the wizard community. Also HP was born in 1980, battle of Hogwadrs in 1998 ..in that times there was much lower divorce rate.......with all that said ..I do believe that use of love potion is important in Voldemort story.
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I think it was a combination of things:
The fact he was conceived due to a love potion, his mother's (and her family) was a lineage of inbred people, he was raised in an orphanage without a mother's love, his father's arrogance and hatred he inherited, the fact his mother chose death instead of her son, etc.
You can't blame only one aspect. It's a sum of everything that made him like he was.
Tom Riddle did not know he was half blood until he was 16 years old when he did not find any trace of a Tom Riddle Snr at Hogwarts. But when he looked into the name Marvolo he found evidence of his grandfather, mother and uncle at Hogwarts. This lead him to take the trip to Little Hangleton where he found his uncle in the childhood home of his mother. Which is when upon his uncle telling him about the Riddle family that lived in the mansion on the hill near the graveyard, Tom stole his Uncle's wand and killed his father and grandparents. Then planted the wand back with his uncle to frame him for killing the Riddle's. After this point in Voldemort's life he created the name Lord Voldemort which is what those in his friend circle called him and kept the secret of his blood status to himself. Until it was revealed to Harry that Voldemort was half blood I believe Dumbledore was probably the only one to really know this information amongst a few others here and there.
How interesting he was a child during the second world war... He was 13 when it started, a student at Hogwarts and if he wasn't alowed to stay at school during the summer, than he may have sufferes from it in the muggle world. Maybe he saw horrible things... maybe the wizarding world let him down during this period and that is the root of his anger.
Although both Harry and Tom grew up with out a mother, Harry's mother willingly died for him where as Tom's mother just gave up, and plus he was conceived with out love for the poor thing never knew how to give love nor was ever the recipient of love.
Yes but Aniken skywalker only became evil because he was tricked. He was happy until he's had the dream of his wife dying. So he wanted to do anything he possibly could to protect her but with him doing so he went to the Darkside because of it. Love was ultimately his undoing for becoming evil.
The only divorce in Harry Potter is Umbridge's parents and one of them was magical.
No, Grindewald was close with being evil, but his goal was different. He wanted wizard society to be free from hiding and to become dominant but not to enslave non-wizards. Voldermort wanted power and imortality for him and him alone. The end.
I don't know if you did a video of this. Why Hermione doesn't believe that Draco is a Death Eater at first? this always puzzled me.
Because Draco was only 16 when he became one. 16.... not even a qualified, mature age.
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True, but sixteen is considered "adult" in the UK even if you can't vote, get alcohol (unless with a meal) or purchase tobacco. Kinda messed up huh?
I always liked that JKR kept it at age 17 in the wizarding world.
I don't really think 16 is considered the adult age in the UK - I've always thought of it as 18. :/
Hermione maybe wanted proof. Harry and Ron were quick to accuse Draco of things purely because Draco was a bully. (Heir of Slytherin thing in Chamber of Secrets.) Hermione didn't want to believe that Draco was a Death Eater unless Harry could prove it.
I think the more baffling question is why was Hermione so dismissive of the Deathly Hallows. She lives in a bloody magical world where anything is possible so why is it so far-fetched for her to think something like the deathly hallows could exist?
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I think that harry did grow up with a mother's love. Remember lily's sacrifice lives on in him and that sacrifice was totally because she loved him. So harry is totally immersed every day in his mother's love. Merope literally just DIED so ergo no love for Tom. Plus she gave him the name of the guy who left him and the guy who made her own childhood absolute shite. How is that love?
Why wouldn't harry also have been messed up by his childhood though?
TheSpacecraftX Yep. This was explored a lot in Order of the Phoenix, and the general conclusion was that Harry chose not to use his Parseltongue abilities and his difficult past for evil. Bad things happen, but it's how you approach it that counts.
I think ultimately the best of James and Lily's personalities came through in Harry and thus was fortunate for it. It really was a toss of the coin for Dumbledore to leave Harry with his abusive relatives.
TheSpacecraftX Some people use their bad upbringing to make them stronger and more humane as a person while others become bitter and want revenge for it.
That part comes down to Personality which comes down to genes. Voldemort's bad upbringing made him think all muggles were evil. While with Harry's his bad upbringing still told the truth that evil-muggles only made up a small number of muggles.
TheSpacecraftX Some people use their bad upbringing to make them stronger and more humane as a person while others become bitter and want revenge for it.
That part comes down to Personality which comes down to genes. Voldemort's bad upbringing made him think all muggles were evil. While with Harry's his bad upbringing still told the truth that evil-muggles only made up a small number of muggles.
He was messed up by his childhood. think about it. the way he was so against draco and his friends, seeing them as the bullies they are, because of dudley and his friends. The way he clung to sirius and dumbledore and the weasleys as family figures and mentors, because he grew up without any of that, and the way he is able to sympathize with dobby and other "victims" of bullying. he just shows the damage in a different way
Hey I was wondering if you could do a video on if Draco was the hero and Harry was the death eater because this question has come to me a few times I need to find out what would happen :)
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★ How wizards/witches became ghosts
★ What if Bellatrix was still alive
★ What if Dobby didnt die
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can you do a video on how wizards become great? are they born great? and are already naturally extra better than everybody? or is it their personalities (like being ambitious) that help them get to be a great wizard?
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If Harry didn't first meet Ron he might have ended up in Slytherin but I don't think Harry was ever really in danger of ending up like Tom. His parents loved him and died to protect him. Tom's mother abandoned him and he was conceived with love potion.
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I think there are many factors. Merope used her pregnancy to try and make Tom Sr continue loving her after the potion, but the fact she used the potion to effectively rape and mind fuck a guy who blatantly didnt even like her in the first place made that a moot attempt. She gave up since Tom Jr wasnt really a thing to her, he was an object to further her plans to build her ideal life, and when it didnt work she gave up and died right after using the last of her energy to give birth and name her son after the man she has abused, and the man who had abused her. But this alone doesnt make a baby be evil. Rape happens IRL, mothers die in childbirth, children are sent to orphanages, and all 3 habe probably happened in the past multiple times. This doesn't make him evil. But ig does take away on block of support from his basic life. But the system failed him too. The orphanage he is in is cold and doesnt educate him or discipline him. He grows up his younger years in an environment where the only way he can be safe is via hurting people. But, again, this doesnt turn one evil. And then the school system fails also. Blood status bullshit is rampant in the halls, his previous attitude or big fish eats litle fish is rewarded and he is praised and told this is great. He never wants to be tge underdog and goes to absolute extreme lengths to achieve it, no matter the moral or spiritual cost. I think being an heir of slytherin made him think ge was owed something and that he was better than other wizards, the fact his mother and family was slighted by a muggle who let his mother die just fuelled his prejudice of muggles he already had as a child in the orphanage when they were his competition. Basically, the mugle and mage systems both failed him, they failed to save his mother from abuse as a young woman, they failed to stop her drugging and raping a muggle, they failed to find Tom Jr a home once his magic was apparent, they encouraged destructive behaviour and balatant racism. Tom Jr cant feel love because he was never, ever given love. Not even fom bellatrix, whose obsessisve enfatuation is the closest thing hes gotten as far as I have seen. The world encouraged him to be a monster so that is what he became.
Well actually, Voldemort's symptoms would suggest he's a psychopath. Unfortunately, psychopathy IS something you're born with, which means there was never a chance of a "good" Voldemort. At present, it's also impossible to fix. And that's NOW, let alone mental health at the time he grew up. Removing him from the environment, or getting him help, would do nothing. It was too late when he was born. A person born with psychopathy is incapable of feeling empathy, normal emotions, or of acting in anyone's interests except their own. Sound like Voldy? They're also really, really good at PRETENDING they're normal, until that behaviour no longer aligns with their goals. A.k.a. Voldy before he "turned fully evil". According to canon, there WAS no "before he was fully evil". That was just another mask he wore. The wiki even specifies how Riddle very quickly realised he was "careless" for showing Dumbledore so much of himself, because Dumbledore had realised he wasn't normal. That's exactly the way that a person with psychopathy would think. He was a young child at this point, and he was already wearing a mask.
birbfanchannel tighto The thing is,the man was raped and there is no magic irl.
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What about the factor that Riddle simply liked enjoying seeing others suffer? Many serial killers start by torturing animals. The act of basic torture brings them joy.
To say there is no such thing as evil runs beyond mere naivete into stupidity, evil exists denying makes one vulnerable to inadvertently becoming enslaved by it. Evil is what evil is because evil does what evil does, and evil does what evil does because evil is what evil is.
I loved the way how you said that love is different in the muggle world as it isn't permanent....truly said, love is itself a magic ❤❤
There are parallels that can be drawn between tom riddle and Hitler. Hitler was part Jewish and he hated that about himself. I think Voldemort also hated his muggle half and they both looked to eradicate anything that had to do with what they hated about themselves. Added to the unquenchable Thirst for power and you have two people that have come as close to pure evil as they can. Hate and Power are a lethal combination.
Although it is claimed that Hitler had Jewish ancestry, we actually do not know. Hitler's father, originally called Alois Schiklgruber, was illegitimate. We do not know who his father was.
My education is in mental health counseling and I think that the Harry Potter books do a good job to show a believable story adding some mental health and emotion neglect aspects which are almost always present in Sociopathic individuals. He definitely couldn't love as a psychopath.🙁
@ 0:55 Oh I guarantee you there is definitely such a thing as evil people, who need no excuse for it, other than they just derive pleasure from causing chaos and pain to others.
Cool video. Quite an interesting one as well also you mentioned Star Wars and I love Star Wars and Harry Potter
This really makes sense. I know there are many theories but this one makes sense, is based on fact and understandable. Well done
I don't think Dumbledore and Grindlewald had desires to enslave the muggles but to merely rule more as kings. The difference being that they wanted to elevate everybody's life. Muggles having magical remedies and wizards/witches living openly being some of the benefits.
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Might just be me, but I'd like to see a 5 facts video on Merope Gaunt. Or, what would have happened if Merope had lived?
Voldemort goes to hogwarts becomes a Slytherin starts to become obsessed with the dark arts perhaps and Merope might have brought Voldemort up in pure blood supremacy and He might become the leader of the DEATH EATERS
Merope would most likely have sexually abused her son, because she was a rapist and stalker who was obsessed with Tom Riddle Senior. Her naming her son for him and wishing for him to have his father's face can not be a coincidence.
Some reason that play role 1. Love potion 2. His family background 3. When he open the chamber of secrets 4. When he finds that he is the Salazar generation 5. The fear of death force him to make horcruxes and when he split his souls there's no humanity left in him when he split his souls (the fear of death because of her mother maybe) they are the possible reason for him to become the dark wizards
Harry did not grow up without mother's love
he had molly
yes he did..
OMG just before 0:39 when he says "Anakin Skywalker" I was just randomly thinking about him... coincidence, much?
His father's callousness, I reckon was also a contributing factor. Rowling has even agreed with you that if Merope had survived to care for him he probably would've turned out to be a much better person.
J.K Rowling said in an interview that the love potion didn't affect his ability to love himself
0:55 to be fair, there was more factors with anakin than stated here. The jedi council also distrusted anakin and weren't very helpful, as mace trying to kill sidious was the same as him killing dooku earlier in the film with the same justification that he was too dangerous to be left alive, even though it was against the jedi order.
Another thing about the love potion is that it is probably the main reason why Voldemort was so powerful. Being born an unnatural human also meant being born with unnaturally powerful magical ability. Also, his fear of death drove him to commit many horrific crimes as creating horcruxes was his way of conquering his greatest fear and doing so required dark magic.
I heard a theory that the reason why Tom can’t feel any love because it physically hurt him due to the fact that he was conceived via love potion. That’s why in the order of the phoenix, when he and dumbledore finished fighting and he was battling in harry’s mind, he left harry’s body because he could feel the pain of love which harry has a lot of (flashbacks of friends and family)
I heard this theory from MovieFlame channel. You’re welcome 😊
One other thing on the topic of being consived under influence of a love poison, when you are you're unable to love
Hunter Zolomon from the flash saw his father kill his mother at a young age
You can also make a video about what would have happened if dumbledore hadn't died while drinking the potion and also wasn't cursed before.
Lupin was going to leave Tonks and his baby, to be fair he did just think that a weir wolf would never be a fit father, but it did hint that couples in the wizarding world did separate!
I always felt self-hatred was a big part of Tom's psyche.
Environment and Blood are both factors on how one becomes. Voldemort had both bad Environment and blood. His Mother was bad especially abusing the Love potion. Voldemort never was exposed to friends like Harry was (Ron and Hermione). Both Harry's parents were good especially his Mother. She was a lot like Hermione (Muggleborn, very smart, and compassionate). His father was a gifted wizard but arrogant. He was mean to Snape. Harry could have been as bad as Voldemort but with his Mother's blood and hanging out with the Weasleys and Hermione he chose the "light" side.