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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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mmm....

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

but Grindewald is Not voldemort- they're too different tyrants.

and why not a love potion would make a love-deprived child? it does have some logic.

Love potions do not Create real love- they create lust and obsession- we actually saw the effect of a love potion on Ron- and that didn't looked like love to me.

like, isn't there some medical finding thing that says if a woman is alcoholic/does drugs then the baby is born alcohol/drug dependant too?

so why wouldn't a baby conceived while someone's system is full of love potion, mess up the baby development?

that does happen.

also, that;s not a fair criticizing, then like All the characters are unreliable because they have said things that are not shown explicitly.

(and the love potion thing is not BS- slughorn a potion master said it and we saw the effects of that on Ron)

Re: mmm....

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

Thinking on most of JKR's flat plane (that she has sometimes), Voldemort and Gellert are pretty much the same. We just don't see Gellert's reign at all, so we will never know how far he got.

Ron's episode had no lust to it. Just pure and complete infatuation.

The baby has a CHANCE of being dependent on them -- it isn't born like that all the time. And hey, some kids whose mothers don't do drugs are born needing them. I've got a cousin that's like that and her mother was devastated because she carried "the perfect pregnancy."

I think that's a perfectly fair bit of criticizing. Dumbledore is painted as perfect through six books and it isn't until the seventh that we realize that he is human and he's made some huge mistakes. One of his biggest is that he's too judgmental on certain people, Tom being one of them.

And I don't have a strong trust of Slughorn. I trust Snape over him any day, especially when it comes to potions. Besides that, Ron didn't have children while under the influence of that potion.