Lord Voldemort has all the anger issue symptoms of a man molested as a child.
2007-10-23 04:05:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
That's possible about Voldy's anger issues, but even if it's true, Dumbledore was NOT the perp. Dumbledore has enough of a sense of ethics that he's not going to take advantage of a child!
A more likely explanation for Voldemort's anger issues is that he was abandoned. His father didn't want him (or his mother) at all, and his mother died right after he was born. An already hurting kid would see that as a form of adandonment, and heaven knows how he'd react when he grew up, learned his family history, and found out about Tom Sr. (And actually, we **do** know how he reacted - he killed Tom Sr. the first chance he had!)
2007-10-23 04:12:58 · answer #1 · answered by Navigator 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Tom Riddle was already an angry, evil person the first time that Dumbledore met him. He became what he was because he was abandoned by both his parents and was raised in an orphanage. If anything he probably turned out the way he did because he had some sort of attachment disorder. According to the woman who ran the orphanage he was even strange when he was a baby.
Your question is stupid.
2007-10-23 06:51:57 · answer #2 · answered by KL 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I think we don't need to go there to understand Tom Riddle. Dumbledore's memories are pretty clear as to the sort of person he was from a young age. Not to say that the revelation about Dumbledore is irrelevant to the story.
Throughout the series, we know Dumbledore as a tireless and seemingly single-minded fighter against Dark Wizards (at least from Harry's perspective; we do have to remember that Albus is also a great teacher, an alchemist, and important theoretical Wizard--remember the tools and instruments he made himself). But how did Albus become that way?
We learn much about this in DH, with Arianna's story, Aberforth's story and the story of the friendship between Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald. In reading DH, it was clear that Grindelwald seduced Dumbledore on a number of levels; intellectually, ideologically, and, by JKR's new revelation, emotionally. We don't know if that seduction was sexual as well, and I'm not sure it is important for us to know.
The revelation completes the picture for us of a man who felt betrayed, injured by one he loved, ashamed at how far he went from rational thought and behavior, how far he really was from what he thought he was.
The up shot is that we now know more completely Dumbledore's motivations for fighting Dark Wizards--his shame at his own tangential contribution to Grindelwald's career, his reluctance to fight him, and, when Voldemort rose, his determination to not to repeat his prior mistake of inaction and to fight Voldemort from the start.
So in summery, It was part of the way JKR viewed Dumbledore and understood him. I don't think it was something that would have come out voluntarily--more likely something that would have made a scholarly article 50 or 60 years from now after she was gone and literary scholar had access to her full notes (assuming she left them to be investigated).
BTW, there is some inkling of this in DH, where Rita Skeeter talks about devoting a chapter in her book about Dumbledore to the Dumbledore/Harry relationship. This is not to say that there was anything improper--but that JKR did put out a hint.
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2007-10-23 11:18:00 · answer #3 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
You might find another section to explore these issues in. This is very similar to multiple other homosexual-themed questions you have posted. I answered one, but Books and Authors may not be the best forum to fully discuss this.
If you are curious, try reading one of the 500 other posts about Dumbledore.
2007-10-23 04:19:46 · answer #4 · answered by aggylu 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
This is the type or irritating crap I knew was going to happen because of her casual remark about Dumbledor being gay. Complete idiocy. She should leave well enough alone. Her characters, in my mind, have not changed since ending the series. It's ludicrous to bring up garbage like this now.
2007-10-23 09:09:20 · answer #5 · answered by lilith663 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Gay people do not go around molesting children. 99% of the molesters who mess with little boys are straight men with a need for power.
2007-10-23 04:14:58 · answer #6 · answered by Blue 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Dude...it's a story! It's not real! You can't speculate about things that could have happened in a fictional story! What happened is written in the books. Don't go making up nasty things in your head, because that is straying away from the story! Just stick to what the books say, and don't make any stupid garbage like that. You could go and analyze every characters background, but what's the use? they aren't even real!
2007-10-23 08:26:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No.
Homosexuals do not molest children. Get that out of your head now.
JK Rowling did not have that happen. That is not why Riddle turned evil. He was after power and power makes people evil.
2007-10-23 04:14:30 · answer #8 · answered by Tara662 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋
Being a homosexual and being a pedophile are two completely different things. They are completely unrelated.
2007-10-23 06:15:47 · answer #9 · answered by swigaro 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Enough, already! or should I say ENOUGH, ALREADY!!!!
What books have you read lately? Anything? Anything?
Is there any way we can move on?
2007-10-23 04:11:51 · answer #10 · answered by Patti R 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋