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[hpraremod]

Discussion Question #9
Can Voldemort love? Would things have been different if someone loved him?

This great question was thanks to arenee1999 who saw the question in this forum

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[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Nice point. It's also interesting to me that he tells Severus he regrets having to kill him. There's nothing he gains by saying that, so I tend to take it as genuine. I have a soft spot for a certain kind of loyalist!Snape fic, and so I think it would be very interesting to look more closely at their relationship - maybe V could come to feel for him the way he does for Bella.

And he also seems oddly invested in the notion of the DEs as his friends or family, arguing with Dumbles about it in the middle of a battle as he does.

[deirdre-aithne.livejournal.com]

ZIM!!!! *cough* Ahem...

But the way he addresses the 'I don't want to do this but I must' thing was very cold, so it seems more like he was trying too hard to have a heart, in that case, to me. I think in some ways he wants to care, but he finds it hard for most of them. Perhaps it's just my shippy heart that makes me see Bella as having been special for him, but I think out of all of them, she might have been the one he really felt for. Severus I could see him viewing almost as a friend, though, or as close to it as he's capable of, more than any of his other followers.