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Post #1
Recently I re-read Chamber of Secrets and I noticed something I didn't ever pick up on before. In chapter thirteen, titled "The Very Secret Diary" Harry travels back to Hogwarts fifty years ago, through Tom Riddle's diary to see what happened the last time the Chamber of Secrets was open. In the memory he sees Tom Riddle talking to Professor Dippet about staying at Hogwarts over summer and school closing because of the attacks.
After being told that the school would close if the attacks didn't stop Tom leaves and "Harry could tell Riddle was doing some serious thinking. He was biting his lip, his forehead furrowed. Then, as though he had suddenly reached a decision, he hurried off, Harry gliding noiselessly behind him." (That comes from page 245, from the first and second paragraphs.)
The follow pages then describe Tom confronting and framing Hagrid with opening the Chamber of Secrets.
As we know later it was Tom Riddle, a young Voldemort who opened the Chamber of Secrets to rid the school of everyone he thought unworthy to be there. I have read in various interviews given by J.K. Rowling that part of what makes Tom Riddle/Voldemort so evil is the fact that he has never experienced real love or has any comprehension of what love is.
What I have been puzzling over is whether or not this is a contradiction to what J.K. Rowling has said. Was the reason Tom chose to frame Hagrid and close the chamber because, at a very shallow level, he loved Hogwarts and didn't want the school to close. Or was framing Hagrid a very selfish ploy to keep things going his way at Hogwarts?
I am curious to hear anyone's thoughts on this. Please respond!
After being told that the school would close if the attacks didn't stop Tom leaves and "Harry could tell Riddle was doing some serious thinking. He was biting his lip, his forehead furrowed. Then, as though he had suddenly reached a decision, he hurried off, Harry gliding noiselessly behind him." (That comes from page 245, from the first and second paragraphs.)
The follow pages then describe Tom confronting and framing Hagrid with opening the Chamber of Secrets.
As we know later it was Tom Riddle, a young Voldemort who opened the Chamber of Secrets to rid the school of everyone he thought unworthy to be there. I have read in various interviews given by J.K. Rowling that part of what makes Tom Riddle/Voldemort so evil is the fact that he has never experienced real love or has any comprehension of what love is.
What I have been puzzling over is whether or not this is a contradiction to what J.K. Rowling has said. Was the reason Tom chose to frame Hagrid and close the chamber because, at a very shallow level, he loved Hogwarts and didn't want the school to close. Or was framing Hagrid a very selfish ploy to keep things going his way at Hogwarts?
I am curious to hear anyone's thoughts on this. Please respond!
Post #2
My opinion would contradict JK's in some ways. Tom really loved Hogwarts. everyone love their home and Hogwarts was Tom's only home. But that was something very materialistic and selfish. He loved everything around him that gave him power. Hogwarts gave it to him. This is pretty evident in the way his Horcruxes were chosen by him, all of them were the symbol of power. And it cant be called real love. There was so sacrifice, no emotion other than the passion for power attached to it. Real love is something selfless, something for which a person would be ready to die for. Thats something Tom never got to experience in his life.
Post #3
I believe Tom Riddle was infatuated with the school and its potential impurity, what with the students and other attendees that he believed were not worthy of the school's prestige.
As for love, I would argue that Riddle did not experience love because his "love" was with a structured object, Hogwarts, and not with an actual person. Real love is a reciprocal relationship in which the opportunity for give-and-take is present. He would have experienced love had it been with another being. Therefore as it pertains to Tom Riddle, I would argue the same as JK Rowling, that his actions are subject to desire.
As for love, I would argue that Riddle did not experience love because his "love" was with a structured object, Hogwarts, and not with an actual person. Real love is a reciprocal relationship in which the opportunity for give-and-take is present. He would have experienced love had it been with another being. Therefore as it pertains to Tom Riddle, I would argue the same as JK Rowling, that his actions are subject to desire.
Post #4
Where did Tom Riddle speak with Dr.Dippet?
i don't think Tom/Voldemort loved Hogwarts
i don't think Tom/Voldemort loved Hogwarts
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