The REAL Reason Voldemort Became EVIL - Harry Potter Theory

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Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Tom Marvolo Riddle was born at Wool’s Orphanage on New Years eve, 1926 to Merope Gaunt, a pure-blood witch and the daughter of Marvolo Gaunt.
Tragically, Merope died shortly after Riddle was born, the result of a broken heart. Abandoned by the man that she loved and suffering complications from childbirth paired with starvation and/or hypothermia, Merope no longer had any desire to live, and made no attempts to utilize magic to save her own life.
In interviews conducted AFTER the series ended, JK Rowling opens up the possibility of Voldemort LOVING something, someone. She said it herself, if Merope had survived and been there to raise him, then there’s a very good chance that he COULD have loved. This means that he was never quite as emotionally incapable as other canon suggests.
So my question is..If the transformation of Tom Riddle in to Voldemort could have been avoided by some love and care, then what on earth happened to him at the orphanage? I suppose it’s possible that he simply needed the love and care of his mother- but, weren’t the caregivers at the orphanage good to Tom? Or, was it actually Tom’s upbringing that was directly responsible for creating the monster that tore apart the Wizarding World?
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@HarryPotterTheory 4 месяца назад

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@WolverineMRD 4 месяца назад

No I never considered this, but I LOVE this theory, you should know that I never had the chance to read the Harry Potter books so I don't have all the information about this, also I'm not much of a fan of History and historical events so I don't even bother memorize the events that happened or the dates in which they happened 😅😅😅😅😅

@coxmosia1 3 месяца назад

Was there a prophecy about the rise of Grindlewald and his defeat?

@ginantsfan5 4 месяца назад

" Don't pity the dead Harry pity the living and above all those who live without love."

@jujubees5855 4 месяца назад

Childhood PTSD does tend to make the survivor yearn for control. Whether it's power or self harming behaviors.

@jebVlogs556 4 месяца назад

sounds making devilish children or naroctic patients..

@anarki777 3 месяца назад

I had a pretty dark childhood, and it's true that I yearn for power.

@robertmckenna3994 3 месяца назад

The desire for power and control is not wrong, it is the methods some use to acquire them that are problematic.

@SoraMatt 3 месяца назад

@@jebVlogs556or those who rise above and use that trauma in order to prevent others from suffering as they did. It is still a path in an attempt to control, but not every path of control is out of narcissism or sociopathy

@aqueelahabdul-aleem2443 3 месяца назад

Yes! And as an individual that underwent childhood trauma; and, who's family has generational curses of sexual and physical child abuse; I hate the "abuse excuse". It's what one chooses for one self. Get some freaking psychological and psychiatric help; for your sake, and the sake of the society in which you live. The rest is bull mess!

@bencecseppento3749 4 месяца назад

Depends on the person. My great-grandfather was basically banished from home at the age of 9 because there were too many mouths to feed. He became a stablehand and slept in a barn at that young age. Still, my grandfather (his son-in-law) always mentioned he was the most honest and honorable man he has ever met, and my mother insists that he was the best grandpa a girl could ask for.

@me-iz9eg Месяц назад

You are right and wrong. It depends on the person, but not only on him. As a matter of fact, if magic was real and I could perform it, I could very easily have ended up like him. I was an only child in an isolated village, born to 2 narcissists - not what people say about slightly self-centered people, the psychological term. I was the only half-healthy person available for communication. Without faith and love from my bestie (whom I met only via the Internet) - the way to being a horrible psychopath was short.

@blarfroer8066 4 месяца назад

Psychopathy is usually rooted in both genetic disposition and outside circumstances. The Gaunts had been messed up for generations already and growing up in such a bad environment can't have helped either.

@maksimilian528 4 месяца назад

It's possible Tom inherited some of that Gaunt instability from his mother

@robertmckenna3994 4 месяца назад

You hit the nail on the head. I had a grandfather that grew up in a Public Assistance Institution, or workhouse, around the same time. I was told that by the time I came around that he had mellowed considerably. But the old man I remember was a shouting angry drinker that was only “mellow” when he was sitting in his armchair smoking his cigarettes. My grandmother told me that he and his family lived there off and on during the twenties and thirties. While not an orphanage, it’s still the same nasty state institution.

@grokeffer6226 4 месяца назад

I'm about as old as Harry's parents would have been. My Dad was born a few years after Voldemort's birthdate. My Dad found himself on his own and barely able to survive, too. His Mother was young when she got married and had two kids, and then The Great Depression kicked in, and his father left. I don't think my father ever actually was able to forgive his father. He never talked about it much. His Mother wasn't involved much with his upbringing, either. Luckily for him, my Dad was able to move in with his mother's older brother, so that he wasn't homeless anymore and didn't have to go hungry.

@grokeffer6226 3 месяца назад

This doesn't really have much to do with this video, but it underscores part of the reason that I like the Harry Potter saga.

@jkrause365 4 месяца назад

Having grown up in the US, there's quite a bit of European and British social history I'm unaware. This video adds a great amount of information I never had. Thanks.

@harryplopper9567 4 месяца назад

He was always evil. When Dumbledore found him he’d already been stealing from and terrorizing the other kids in the orphanage. He neither understood love nor had any empathy. He was a sociopath

@michellechouinard4958 3 месяца назад

Yet Rowling wrote his character, and she said herself that if he'd been loved, he'd have turned out very differently.

@Exile97 4 месяца назад

Id have more sympathy for voldy if he was the only one this stuff was happening too, id bet there were other wizards who grew up muggleborn or in bad circumstances around his time

@bookworm7076 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much for the history lesson. The tough environment of the 1930s and 1940s helps us better understand Tom Marvolo Riddle's motivations for turning to the Dark Side. Voldemort's life story should be a cautionary tale for all of us. Don't let hard times turn you into a hard person. We also need to consider things from a person's point of view, or walk a kilometre in their shoes, to understand the roots of the world's problems and work together to create better solutions.

@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto 4 месяца назад

Perhaps, but aggressor is an aggressor. Especially a Mortal Aggressor, someone who freely murders. True self-defense is one I understand, but anything else is evil. Regardless how he got to a point of enjoying murdering any human being, he did, he's evil. Not to mention, though rare there are monsters of human beings that have 0 reason. That is the unforgivable part of him. We learned why Vader became what he did, Changes nothing he's utterly evil. Up to a certain point, he was ready to end Luke his own son. At the least, Vader loved another at one time. Voldemort never loved another person, Nagini probably being the closest to him emotionally.

@Supreme0757 4 месяца назад

Voldemort is one character that checks off every single thing of a grandiose narcissist. I know alot of fans say sociopath but Voldemort seems to lean way more on the narcissism scale. They are not only arrogant but are unable to feel empathy. Taking out Harry wasn’t only to avoid death but to also protect his image of invincibility. Full blown narcissists have a tremendous lack of empathy which people overlook because people only associate it with an inflated ego but it’s basically an extreme mixture of both

@Neenerella333 4 месяца назад

One son of a narcissist said, "If you're not cheering for or complimenting him, you were considered a threat". That seems to be the difference between sociopaths and narcissists. Sociopaths don't outwardly appear to need praise.

@Larka661 4 месяца назад

Voldemort didn't develop such a personality disorder until he learned about magic and being a wizard.

@Supreme0757 4 месяца назад

@@Larka661 Not true. He displayed a craving for dominance over others along with bullying to the point of violence before understanding his abilities. Also in the book within seconds of learning what magic was and what he could do his response was “I knew I was different ….I knew I was special” lol with Dumbledore gave him the side eye. He tried to rush his way through the conversation to hurry and get his own wand but when he noticed how it was putting off Dumbledore that’s when he started to put on the fake charming and polite Tom Riddle Al he could get what he wants. All the knowledge of magic did was expose his inner self it didn’t push him to develop that as a result

@KimP0612 4 месяца назад

You can have a dual diagnosis. Most people with mental health disorders have more than one.

@Larka661 4 месяца назад

@@KimP0612I know he's a fictional character, but I'd love to hear a professional's opinion on what was wrong with voldemort 😂

@sid2112 4 месяца назад

Watching Ralph Fiennes doing Voldemort is great. I just rewatched Schindler's List. Good Lord I'd forgotten how amazingly evil he really could act. Voldemort has nothing on Goeth.

@AdmiralofU2 3 месяца назад

Too right. Is this what inspired Warner Bros to hire him as Voldemort? I can see parallels. Just note, David Thewlis (Remus Lupin) also played a leading SS officer.

@eugenewang4650 3 месяца назад

@@AdmiralofU2i could really see a bit of lupin in his striped pyjamas performance. the SS officer character didnt seem as evil as Goeth as he at least genuinely loved his son and wife but was consumed by ideology

@eugenewang4650 3 месяца назад

Ive realised all my favourite acting performances were from Shakespearean trained backgrounds. Stephen Dillane as Stannis, Charles Dance as Tywin, Ian Mcdiarmid as the Emperor and Ralph Fiennes as both Goeth and Voldy. Its not just the acting ability of being a believable character, they go the extra mile into being as realistic as possible. All of these characters aren't overdramatically evil but their villainy comes out subtly down to each individual line in each individual scene theyre in.

@westnetjulez 2 месяца назад

Watch him in the movie spider. It scared the hell out of me!

@spriken 4 месяца назад

I don't think things would have been much different if Merope had lived. I think she may have even wanted to die to protect Tom. If she had lived, her father and brother would have done to her son what they did to her if not outright kill him to clean their family tree of him and she knew it. But with her death, there was the possibility that at best his father would take him and he would have everything she could never provide. At worst, he would stay at the orphanage being taken care of till he could go to school and have a future her family would never allow. Believing all that, it may have even been bravery that prevented her from saving herself. As far as I can tell she never had parental love and couldn't have understood the effect not having her would have on her son. In the flashback, when he saw her Harry thought "he had never seen a more defeated-looking person". Merope was in a beaten-down state of desperation. At her core I think the only thing Merope ever wanted was to love and be loved, without any real idea how life and love worked. If she had been allowed to go to school and meet other people I think her future would have been very different. Edit to say: I don't think the orphanage mistreated Tom. If they had they would have been on his hit list and there is little chance Dumbledore wouldn't have told harry if something awful had happened.

@Crafty_Spirit 3 месяца назад

I don't think Voldemort would be lucid to the insight that his upbringing in an orphanage actually deeply scarred him. He probably told himself that growing up in a different setting would not have changed much. Hence no need to attack the institution. (Also he had ample opportunity for revenge against individuals before Dumbledore showed up, anyone who may have abused him prior to this was probably already assaulted)

@headstrongbachelor3152 3 месяца назад

Yes it would because the breastfeed itself is already there the child forms emotional connection to others and had Merope sacrificed herself to protect him against her evil family there would be a love protection. Voldemort's evil is rooted in simple human psychology. Psychopaths are born out of lack of emotional connection from early childhood.

@spriken 3 месяца назад

@@headstrongbachelor3152 Harry's "love protection" Is only against Voldemort himself and if he'd allowed it any other Deatheater could have killed him. Merope's " love protection" would have only worked against her family. For all we know he could have had it without ever knowing... Maybe it even helped somehow against his uncle the night he killed his father's family.

@owningyourfinances 3 месяца назад

The circumstance does not create the man, it reveals him to himself - James Allen I've seen people go through horrible life experiences, losing parents, or being given up for adoption, going through foster care from home to home, and somehow achieving good grades amidst the chaos, finding a passion and being driven to succeed. They want to avoid the helpless situation they felt as a child, so their response was to make something more of themselves. Yes, bad habits can be learned from parents, but that doesn't write the child's destiny, their choices ultimately decide their destiny.

@kuutti6777 3 месяца назад

Some parts of his story, and especially his childhood, remind me of my mother. She was born in -47, and she had 14 siblings. When she was only 4 their mom died and they took care of each other as their father didnt care. She had to move far away from home at 12 yrs old to work as a maid in a strange family. When I was little she was very distant and work oriented, she expected me to raise myself and never said "I love you"or hugged any of us, although I understand why(how could you learn to do these things if you never experienced love as a child). I always assumed I was faulty because I didnt feel that overwhelming empathy that most seem to, I am also autistic. At around 34 I met my husband, and afterwards experienced an odd feeling for the first time and realized it was actually empathy(I felt worse for another person's loss than my own, which was obviously strange). So it's never too late to change or learn new feelings.

@shoresean1237 4 месяца назад

I compare Tom to an anime character named Lucy. Lucy is the protagonist of the series Elfen Lied and grew up in a similarly bad orphanage. Her chief tormentor may have been a small schemer, or only just above her on the pyramid of abuse. She had an obvious physical difference, small bony protrusions on the top of her head that resembled cat-ears and were often referred to as horns. The workers at the child care center, or orphanage, were also cruel to her and made this disdain clear to the other orphans, escalating all cruelty until a triggering event pushed Lucy away from humanity. A brief bit of hope followed soon after, but she mistook a new friend for having engaged in a betrayal similar to her triggering event. One thing that may have really pushed her may tie directly to Voldemort: For some reason, everyone from the workers to the children knew that she was abandoned in a field as an infant. Now, I don't know what the laws say in Britain or Japan or even the US, but I kind of thought a child's origins would be kept to a few need-to-know people, perhaps including the child themselves, perhaps not. This seemed absolute common knowledge and seemed to have a direct impact on her treatment there. I must also wonder if the knowledge of how Tom came to be there - to even be born there - was common knowledge and drove how he was treated even before his powers manifested. Maybe you could do a video - if you haven't already - on the controversy of feeling sympathy for Merope, who in essence raped Tom Sr. Yes, she did wrong, an enormous wrong, by this, and even if the Riddles were not-nice or stuck-up people, this does not change the fact of depriving another of their will and freedom. But given the life she was fleeing, I feel pity for her is not unwarranted. I even have a headcanon that maybe she was trying to escape a desperate Marvolo pairing her with Morfin, though that is still just an explanation, not an exoneration.

@nosickl 3 месяца назад

The only thing Lucy and Voldemort have in common is spending their childhood in an orphanage and going on a killing spree. Unlike Voldemort she had no self esteem and she did not find a place where she could belong. She did not want to become a dictator or start a genocide, plus, she was capable of love, remorse and compassion. Then again maybe this is your point. Growing up without love and care could always lead to a person becoming a terrorist, it does not matter whether they had self esteem and chances to develop in society or not.

@pontusbackman1863 4 месяца назад

Not a bad theory but I doubt it ever was in his blood to accept or care for Muggles. He was after all a Gaunt, wasn't he? His father leaving him fueled the fire, and Meropes death caused him to become obsessed with immortality. He didn't want to be as weak as his parents (his father was weak for leaving the family, Merope because she could not save herself. Or at least he thought so). He wanted to cleanse the world of Muggles or Muggleborns to have his revenge on his father, but he got interested in making horcruxes to achieve something his mother did not achieve; to cheat death. His time in the orphanage would have made him bitter, but without learning about his parents, my guess is he would never have turned out into a killing machine. More like a Severus Snape; bitter, cold and distansing his feelings. But he despised his father for leaving him, and his mother for not being able to save herself and be there for him. And that hatred he felt towards them became all he was. It took over him completely.

@spiritusmundi70 4 месяца назад

So in the muggle world he'd have been a serial killer?

@maksimilian528 4 месяца назад

Thank you for pointing out that the love potion did not affect how Tom turned out. It's a common misconception. His inability to love came from not having his mother and perhaps even some Gaunt instability. Also like how you showed ww2 events alongside Tom's school years. Very informative.

@HarryPotterTheory 4 месяца назад

Thanks very much!

@mrD66M 4 месяца назад

It's a possibility that, had his mother not died and chosen to keep him, she could've projected the rejection she endured from Riddle Snr, or the abuse she suffered from Marvolo and Morfin, onto him - thus likely to change very little for the better in tom riddle's formative years

@CraigMcGuinn 4 месяца назад

@@HarryPotterTheoryI’d say Tom likely viewed the United States’ use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to cause Japan’s surrender and end WWII to be the same as Nazi Germany bombing Britain earlier on during that war. To Tom, there was no such thing as a loving side of WWII: which explains the evil depths he went to in his efforts to take over Hogwarts with his Death Eaters and why he easily bought into the pure blood ideology

@kevinness9341 4 месяца назад

I honestly never considered the time period and what the conditions of said time period. Good deep dive.

@kylegrimsey4446 3 месяца назад

Absolutely exceptional video, really enjoyed it. This overlap with real events to the fiction of HP is brilliant. Makes for good 'food for thought'. Having watched it, I think it must have been a huge part of TR's formative years, that led to his creation of LV.

@adyscript 4 месяца назад

Most people go through incredibly difficult things. Some choose to use those hardships as an excuse for their poor behavior later in life. Others understand they alone are responsible for their own actions.

@littlefoot5013 4 месяца назад

You make a good point. The lives of Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, and Severus Snape were less than ideal (and all three of them were Halfbloods like Tom too.) in their childhood, yet Harry was always good and Snape and Dumbledore reformed, both of them after the tragic loss of a loved one.

@jdon2638 4 месяца назад

Potter had a wizard and a witch as parents. He was a pure-blood.

@littlefoot5013 4 месяца назад

@@jdon2638 Not quite true. I think it's still considered Halfblood as his mother had no magical parentage. Same thing for Dumbledore as Kendra Dumbledore was Muggleborn.

@petrospetromixos6962 3 месяца назад

Nah more like everyone in his family were crazy and he became too his nparents threw him in the garbage ,Harrys parents were heroes and died for him ,genes beat circumstances

@timleber2257 4 месяца назад

You gloss over the fact that Tom was actively malevolent towards the other children. He was a monster, the crucible of his childhood only focused what was already there. As a comparison Harry was actively abused and mistreated yet he didn't become a monster.

@kimwelch4652 3 месяца назад

A good bit of Tom's evil was genetic. Much of it came through the Gaunt family which birthed it's share of narcissistic psychopaths and sociopaths, but add to this the rich Riddle family which while not magical were all about money and power. Tom had very little chance of learning empathy and may not have even been capable of it regardless of who raised him.

@fatuusdottore 3 месяца назад

That's also not uncommon with abused children though.

@kimwelch4652 3 месяца назад

@@fatuusdottore There is Nature, Nurture and Choice. Abused children will have symptoms of PTSD and may be socially maladapted, but they are not normally or necessarily psychopathic or sociopathic. Harry was also abused, but was compassionate and choice to help others. It is possible for someone born with psychopathic tendencies to learn compassion, but that is a choice rather than something determined by birth or upbringing. People who do not choose tend to fall back on their Nature first and then their Nurture.

@HolaEspanyol 4 месяца назад

great video as always

@theafaith23 2 месяца назад

It will be fascinating to re-watch the films with this background and perspective. Thanks for another thought-provoking video.

@matthewallen3930 4 месяца назад

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for another great video 👍👍👍

@danielwilliams1359 4 месяца назад

Just finished watching them all👍 Absolutely brilliantttt😂💯

@baystated 4 месяца назад

I wonder how the conditions at Wool's compared to an upbringing in the Gaunt shack? What would he have turned into if he was raise with his uncle and grandfather?

@maryholder3795 3 месяца назад

If he'd been welcomed by his family yes he'd have grown up just like his grandfather and uncle. Or he'd have been treated like Harry was by the Dursleys.

@MANB91UK 2 месяца назад

They would have hated him for having impure blood. Would have been worse.

@laurendobinson5930 4 месяца назад

Amazing video x

@Sim2322 4 месяца назад

Plenty of things Voldy loved. Snakes, horcruxes, power, torturing and killing, sucking unicorn blood... It's well established he loved those a lot.

@plupples6392 3 месяца назад

You were spot on with this video about Tom Riddle's life. 👍

@janetshade4659 2 месяца назад

When a baby is born they are usually given to the mother who then holds and hugs their baby, this kick-starts some brain development that leads to them being able to form emotional bonds with people. If the baby is taken away and placed in a cot straight away and doesn't get that contact then their brain doesn't go through that developmental phase. This could be what started Tom's difference. His mother rolled over and died rather than hug him and fight to live for him. growing up in that orphanage made it worse.

@Larka661 4 месяца назад

Finally! I've been saying for a long time that just because of his mother using a love potion on Tom's father was way too simple to make such an evil villain

@winterrain1947 4 месяца назад

Same; If it was a thing that a love potion could cause an evil child to be produced, then there'd be an enormous number of kids in the real world who are as evil as Voldemort. There are plenty of humans who exist that were not conceived during a moment of spiritual love.

@Larka661 4 месяца назад

@winterrain1947 I've even posted what if Voldemort was shown love at some point in his life? But apparently, most fans are convinced due to the love potion, voldemort was destined to never be able to feel love. I find that ridiculous.

@mecahhannah 4 месяца назад

Awesome as always thanks

@thumostheos 4 месяца назад

This is more a fascinating insight into history than the Wizarding World. Thanks!

@nancyramsey7013 3 месяца назад

Thank you for such an in-depth video.

@skullseeker3013 4 месяца назад

He is a result of a love potion, which gives him all characteristics of the love potion, manipulative, attractive, not feeling love or any other feelings, compassion, I think. No real emotions, especially positive ones. As a love potion itself, his “love” to a girl wouldn’t last long, he would dumped her , after using her , like Yagami Light in Death Note manga / anime, he was using girls and other people for his evil plans.

@rationaltrekker2509 3 месяца назад

Wow! This may be your best theory! I had always realised, based on information from the chapter in Half Blood Prince to which you are referring here, that Riddle had a very bleak existence as a young child. It is clear from things that Dumbledore tells Harry, along with what Mrs. Cole tells Dumbledore, that the seeds of the evil we see in Voldemort later were already germinating. At first, when I saw the title for this video, I was almost dismissive because it seemed so obvious. But you bring in some compelling points from the real world. I had never thought about what was happening in the world and in Britain - especially London - in particular. Being American, I would not have learned anything about the Child Adoption Act of 1926, nor did I piece together that Voldemort would have headed off to Hogwarts just Britain was declaring war on Nazi Germany. Further I hadn't thought about the impact of the Great Depression on orphanages in England. In fact, while I have known that the Depression impacted Britain and other countries as well as the United States, I have never studied its impact in other countries. In the end, this episode is a real eye-opener to the significance of the Harry Potter stories being set in the real world, as opposed to a place like Middle-earth or Westeros. It means that real world events must be assumed to have an impact on the Wizarding World in the story. Thank you for the food for thought!

@RFGfotografie 4 месяца назад

Genius video yet again.

@sannasaare7100 4 месяца назад

Excellent video. I’ve often wondered how someone like hitler came to exist - there are many parallels between hitler and Voldemort. This answers a lot of questions.

@Grinedel 3 месяца назад

my heart breaks for Tom Riddle whenever I think about him, which is constantly

@Larka661 4 месяца назад

We can easily confirm he was a controlling person as a child. He collected trophies from the children he bullied. Its always been said that growing up in an orphanage was hell. Plus, look at location and time period. He always asked to stay at hogwarts for the summer. Because he hated that orphanage. Its even said foster care is hell, even to this day. We can easily say he most likely didnt trust many people, even though he was a prefect and popular in school. A traumatic childhood can cause many mental problems. And learning about his past and family pretty much angered him. One question i ask is, "Did he officially become a psychopath when he first split his soul, making his first horcrux?" The soul is what makes you human, makes you alive. And obviously, he didn't care what effect splitting the soul did to him.

@andrzejzborowski4920 4 месяца назад

Being raised in an orphanage twisted his psyche. He was certainly beaten and humiliated. He became a psychopath. Plus he's definitely seen criminal London. He told Dumbledore that he was walking around the city alone. He certainly hit the East End more than once. I wonder what happened the night he killed his father and grandparents? Did he just walk into the Riddle's house and kill all three of them at once, or did he talk to them? We know they had a look of horror on their dead faces. I think he used the Crucio curse first and got all the information he needed about what happened to his mother. He despised her anyway, as well as his father and his parents.

@ivanasazzini9153 23 дня назад

You have a point. I had never thought about Voldemort's upbringing to such extensive details and, all things considered, I have come to the conclusion that Tom Riddle was a shell-shocked child, traumatized and ready to do all that it wold have taken to survive. Sure, he was born as the final result of a love potion, but I think that what he endured in that orphanage was "the coup the grace".

@SoraMatt 3 месяца назад

It's a good contrast to other franchises where some orphans can overcome trauma and loss and become the very thing that stops their trauma from happening to anyone else again (see: Batman) and the thought that this child took his pain and upbringing and used it to lash out. "Lest you stare into the abyss to long for eventually the abyss stares back into you," Characters like Voldemort - unlike the Caped Crusader - unfortunately were the ones who blinked.

@lizbird9628 3 месяца назад

The worn torn environment ... makes me wonder at this point, what involvement Grindelwald had ... (hence why we need more Fantastic Beasts). As within JK's books the Hogwarts years of Voldemort's books not only references the muggle orphanage, but the rising of Grindelwald and the symbology of the Deathly Hallows. Did the teenage Tom Riddle idolise him? 🤔 and the power he weilded over muggles. I would love for that aspect of Voldemorts upbringing to be explored alongside what you discuss in this video. ❤

@sydneymullenix9071 4 месяца назад

Harry also had a difficult upbringing and he was a hero.

@kazemizu 4 месяца назад

Didn't a psychologist once examine Harry's upbringing and say he should have a ton of issues as a person??

@Bitter.nemesis.. 3 месяца назад

@@kazemizuyah.

@ElainaMaruyama 3 месяца назад

Ultimately he was a hero in the end but he wasn't exactly a good person either. Dude literally used unforgivable curses multitudes of times and was never punished whilst also being allowed to become an auror.

@cheese_ninentdo_nerds_worl2545 4 месяца назад

Voldemort the boy who never had a chance ✨️☕️✨️

@diegomartinez7180 4 месяца назад

I think you are confusing two different things: Empathy and Emotion. The problem here is that there are many people who are incapable of feeling empathy, but it is much more difficult to find someone who doesn't feel any emotions. So, knowing how much hate, spite and repulse Voldemort felt for many people, especially the kinds of Lucius Malfoy, we can know that he is not "emotionless". Therefore, the problem is not the incapacity to feel love but how he is unable to empathize with others. In our "muggle" world, we call that a "sociopathic personality" and when it becomes a criminal behaviour, we call it a "psychopath". Voldemort exhibits all the symptoms, he is unable to feel regret for his actions, he does things to meet his personal goals regardless if that means damaging or hurting someone. He surrounds himself with minions, not friends, and their value is not measured by care but rather by how useful they are. Once a follower has stopped being useful, no matter how loyal or accommodating they have been in the past, Voldemort just disposes of them. The perfect example is Snape. But then, if he'd been loved during his childhood, would Voldemort have been different? well, I once read a document that stated many, many people have the "sociopathic personality" but never behave in such a way that can be even remotely harmful to others or the society in general. In fact, the only trade they show is usually the lack of empathy when dealing with people outside of their inner circle (things like being rude with kids for being noisy or deciding against someone without any consideration, etc.), which they promptly correct once being notified by someone else that they're behaving wrongly. So, a well loved Voldemort would probably have become a rather prominent member of society, probably a mogul or a politician, and in the second case, probably even Minister for Magic.

@CraigMcGuinn 4 месяца назад

I would say Tom was only able to get things he wanted while at the orphanage by manipulating others and causing them harm due to the lack of resources for all. Combine that with the fact that WWII itself was happening during Tom’s time at Hogwarts makes it easy to see why Tom was obsessed with immortality. The United States being the UK’s ally while having used the two atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII probably got Tom to view all parties involved of WWII as doing mass killings of civilians for selfish reasons

@markkuilomaki1173 3 месяца назад

This kinda reminds me of vergil in dmc, but Tom didn't lose anyone nor didn't he search power to fill that void, but the lack of love alltogether (even he didn't know love at all) and not to mension the hate towards his father, only parrent that lived, but never wanted him even if he had known about his existence, so power and suffering of others were only things that satisfied him and taking control the human and muggle worlds was how he could've attain that and like he said himself "not to give up to the weakness of mortals. DEATH". Refering to the death of his mother.

@davidalan528 11 дней назад

Doesn’t matter how they treated him at the orphanage. Even the most well-cared for and unbullied can suffer from Reactive Attachment Disorder under the right circumstances; poor Tom checks every circumstance’s box.

@32678knowle 4 месяца назад

For me it's one of the weaknesses of Voldemort as a villain, a relative lack of reason for him to be evil. I find the most intriguing villains are ones that became evil because either they tried to do good but lost the plot (Anakin Skywalker) or were the victim of someone else (Davy Jones).

@darkmage9252 4 месяца назад

I mean, Voldemort was a victim of someone else, 2 in fact. His Father abandoning his mother after the mother stopped giving him a love potion, and the mother dying after childbirth. Not to mention the instability of the Gaunt family lineage because of thier inbreeding and being Heirs to Salazar Slytherin.

@nolaanderson8770 4 месяца назад

Harry should have snuck one of the Weasley love potions into Voldemort's lunch box - that would have saved a bunch of lives!

@Markworks365 4 месяца назад

His mom died like Padme, broken heart…

@AriaSerif 17 дней назад

i didn't know about the war in the bkgd but i did think that his upbringing probably played a crucial role in a lot of his decisions later in life.

@johnnycage112 4 месяца назад

Merope drugged and r-worded Tom Sr. She gets no sympathy from me.

@blarfroer8066 4 месяца назад

Exactly! Love potions are the magical version of roofies and I don't understand how they're just sold in normal stores.

@DelbelOfTheVoid 4 месяца назад

That part!

@WolverineMRD 4 месяца назад

I'm not defending her, but wasn't she constantly abused by her family because they thought she was a squib? She didn't exactly grow up in a perfect environment that would teach her morals and ethics, and also she was a Parselmouth (even though it's not necessary for this to be the case) all Parselmouths are believed to become dark witches and wizards. Please note that I personally don't wish to believe this, instead I want to believe that Parselmouths can be good if they want.

@sofiadragon6520 4 месяца назад

Snape's reaction to Lockhart suggesting that Snape would supply some on Valentines Day is a good passage to revisit. Snape has scruples... not that he's nice, but he's got his own code and at minimum he respected Lily's choice enough not to do that to her. I can only imagine the joke shop love potions the twins sold had to be something less than amortentia[sp] and more on the order of sharing some chocolate and oysters with your date. Something that sets a mood but can't override personal choices.

@mrD66M 4 месяца назад

It's implied she was abused by her father and brother repeatedly.. of course no details, but considering what is said about the Gaunt's lineage inbreeding, it's not a stretch to imagine the nature of the abuse

@antoniomariamacri7500 2 месяца назад

Let us not forget that even Voldemort's time at Hogwarts, probably one of the most relatively happy in his life, coincided precisely with the late war against Grindelwald. So Tom would leave the shelter where he feared being hit by a bomb and come to Hogwarts to hear whispers of fear about Grindelwald's latest actions, plus probably he sympathized with the idea of overlording Muggles to stop their barbarity, given how he experienced WWII first hand and Grindelwald is shown to use that as an argument for why Wizards need to take over.

@charlesbrentner4611 3 месяца назад

I wonder if the 7 stones is an easter egg referencee to the 7 pieces of Tom's soul once he created the Horcruxes.

@andyandnormski 4 месяца назад

Voldemort would've watched the other boys at the orphanage come of age, only to get shipped off to war. If those boys came back at all, they did so either maimed or with PTSD. Combine that with all the horrific conditions you mentioned, it's not surprising Voldemort turned out the way he did. People don't always get the wrong end of the deal in situations like that, but he did. It's tragic.

@saintzeroinfinity 4 месяца назад

Trying to explain a sociopath.

@saintzeroinfinity 4 месяца назад

...and succeeding

@ReyDeevil 4 месяца назад

Dude..

@Nulonistic 4 месяца назад

I dunno if you changed your mind or just wanted to clarify but good job either way!

@corackadile 4 месяца назад

Psychopath is more like it haha

@conradaster3764 4 месяца назад

Yup. Very good criminal profiling. I kind of wish this was M.E. moody's part I'm the story...

@leongwaikit6658 4 месяца назад

Voldemort is that type of character that must be defeated and destroy with just simple love. Our pity for his backstory is tragic, it is more tragic when there is nothing he can do and neither the people around him can help, even if there was someone that could help and save him, it is too late, because there was no love in his heart.

@jaehaspels9607 2 месяца назад

The one thing that Voldemort has in common w/ most criminals is the need for power and control. Also, most orphans have RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder) which keeps them from bonding w/ people. As you can see, Voldemort had very little problem w/ killing whomever he needed to get rid of whether it was friend or foe.

@ginnyjollykidd 4 месяца назад

Even if Mrs. Cole wasn't abusive, I can't see the children getting any love from them. They didn't seem like the hugging and kissing type. They probably didn't even have time to read them books. When they took the children to the seaside, it was probably too try to give them a relief of the shabby surroundings and a belief that being at the seaside was a cure-all. Thus they did it as part of their medicinal treatment. But there are a limited number of things sunlight can do for a person. It can't make up for poor nutrition. It can convert vitamin D to a usable form, but that presupposes that vitamin D is in a child's system already. And the attitude of a business or institution comes straight from the top down. So Mrs. Cole's attitude passed on to the nurses. The children were neglected, I figure. I would be surprised if any of the children came out unscathed.

@Maxfromohio2155 14 дней назад

The love potion might have made it harder for him to love

@michaelweigel4822 2 месяца назад

When considering voldemort's I often find myself considering the idea that he may have been clairvoyant like professor trelawney. He had many many many many many many many gifts magically speaking and though it's never mentioned perhaps this is one of them. Perhaps in his youth in the orphanage before Dumbledore came the young boy was tormented with visions of where he would end up when he died... And then compelled by these horrific visions he did everything that he could to prevent dying. I wonder if we never heard of this gift that he had simply because it was the one he hid the most because of the deep fear that it caused him... Just my thoughts....

@eddiegreencheez 2 месяца назад

I'd say love is one of his biggest motivational factors. He can feel love but doesn't know how to properly express it cuz he has never found genuine love. Love is old magic that he couldn't beat l, fire with fire

@kestrelwings Месяц назад

We usually think of the Basilisk as Tom's slave, but the reverse could be true. A basilisk can kill with its eyes, but it may have other powers as well. It could have bonded with Tom and made Tom more evil than he already was. If the basilisk's goal was to escape, killing Tom would not further that goal.

@michellechouinard4958 3 месяца назад

This is such interesting information! It didn't even occur to me the war would be happening when Voldemort was living as a Muggle. I doubt he was terribly abused because if he had been, he'd have found his abusers and killed them. However, even neglect and unkind words and punishment that is incorrectly applied could have caused him to feel powerless. It would make sense, then, why he might feel a deep resentment toward Muggles and long to have power over them - to make them feel as powerless as he felt as a child. Honestly, this made me want to hug Tom Riddle, even though he probably would've killed me for it.

@kcirtapelyk6060 Месяц назад

This video was mind blowing. It definitely adds more layers and depth to Voldemorts character instead of simply being the byproduct of a love potion.

@arabellamileham9978 3 месяца назад

The choice aspect is really key though - yes, life was awful, but not every other kid in the orphanage grew up to be a psychopath! It was his decision to dominate and hurt others - rabbits, toddlers and other young children - that are key to why he is evil and doesn't love anything. Merope's potion has nothing to do for that, it's just a symbol of the lack of love between his parents, it's not a punishment for a (at the time) blameless infant by making it unable to know love. Rejection by his father first, then his mother (we're told she had a choice but she didn't even look at him after he was born) was an obvious factor, as well as the Gaunt family's stable outlook on life, but ultimately his choice to control and hurt others set him on the road to be a murdering psycho.

@brocklawer7635 4 месяца назад

An interesting take historically and socially, Tom Riddle was never loved and could never give it he all wasn’t evil based on being a product of a love potion because you could make the same argument with a drunk couple having a kid and saying that kid won’t have a chance. He was neglected nor was it ever documented that he was ever a good person probably a bad apple from the start.

@leonorakristinerozalinamll9473 4 месяца назад

Every children deserves true love and a safe proper upbrining.

@Nulonistic 4 месяца назад

I still think the love potion theory holds a lot of water considering how often the series alludes to love being it's own form of magic. Many potions include side effects which seem to be karmic balances to their own powers. Like how too much felix felicitus is said to be dangerous. Its almost like the "intended" effect would be that your child concieved via love potion deception will never love you and is, in fact, incapable of doing so owing to the fake love you induced in their other parent.

@Nulonistic 4 месяца назад

I like that this discussion is the Wizarding equivalent of nature vs nurture. I suppose my interpretation is that due to his mother's actions, Voldemort was born with a sort of magical mental disorder. It parallels him well with Harry. One was saved by mothers love and one was doomed by it.

@mrD66M 4 месяца назад

@@Nulonisticwell said - both mothers could have lived but chose to forfeit their lives. Lily died for her son, whereas Merope died to escape the pain of rejection/abuse.

@UncleAL86 4 месяца назад

As a World War 2 buff, THIS is the movie I want to see!!! Great video - I think your best!

@pavelslama5543 2 месяца назад

Considering that Voldy grew up in times of WW2, one would expect that he would know better than just to basically declare war to everyone and expect to win...

@victoriakidd-cromis1124 3 месяца назад

Voldemort's life in an orphanage remindss m of the stories about the orphans from Romania. Those children were amoral. They recived little to no human contact. When a baby cries because it is hungry and then somone holds it and cuddles it and gives it a bottle it learns that it can trust. When a baby cries because tthey need a diaper change and no once comes to do that they learn that they are not important to anyone but themselves. They can not comprehend doing something for someone else becasue noone ever did anything for them. They are the most terrifying form of a narcissist. It is oftern seen it stories about serial killers. They start doing horrible things as small children and it escalates as they age. Voldemort does not care if the Death Eaters like him, let alone love him, all he expects from them is blind obediance. When they fail to do that they are expendable. IF he ever cared for anyone, I'd say it MIGHT be Bellatrix because she preactically worships the ground he walks on and that feeds his ego that he is the most important wizard ever.

@NinjaKittyAsh 4 месяца назад

I have a question where did Tom Riddle go during the summer holidays during his time at Hogwarts?

@janetshade4659 2 месяца назад

back to the orphanage

@NinjaKittyAsh 2 месяца назад

@@janetshade4659 where did you get that information like reference please 😁

@janetshade4659 2 месяца назад

@@NinjaKittyAshbook 2, top of page 182 when the diary is showing Harry what happened 50 years earlier.

@NinjaKittyAsh 2 месяца назад

@@janetshade4659 thank you I’ll check it out

@lewdawg5196 3 месяца назад

I wonder if Tom being alive during the war thought that Muggles were evil to each other so they didn't deserve the life they had been given.

@P-C-Principle 19 дней назад

Children conceived under the effects of a love potion will always result in a child that can never feel or understand love

@root13pie 4 месяца назад

As someone who has studied history and psychology, I am impressed with all the research and analysis you did to construct this theory. This is probably your best video yet!

@HarryPotterTheory 4 месяца назад

Thank-you!

@vocalsunleashed 4 месяца назад

4:05 Wait, the other rooms had rows of beds? Did Tom have one of the few or maybe even the only private bedroom?

@darrienvannormam1291 Месяц назад

He loves life so much. He cant stand the thought of dieing and leaving this world behind.

@vortega472 3 месяца назад

I think from a "wizarding perspective" - especially when from Day 1 you have all the advantages without any outside negative influence - it's easy to put something you don't understand in a category. Why is Voldermort so evil? - A love potion means he was conceived without a soul and has nothing to do with the family who decided to live without our structure and with no upbringing for the daughter - who bore him - is responsible - we have no responsibility for this "Evil" and it was a potion - so we're exempt from responsibility. This is a good one.

@VergilSDT 4 месяца назад

If his environment was a significant factor, surely there would be scores of people just like him? Also, if being loved or cared for was the key to preventing him becoming what he did, then what of all his professors and friends at Hogwarts?

@mattduncil 3 месяца назад

Considering how must orphans had to share a bed or use the floor, the fact Tom had his own room, was a luxury sweet compared to the rest. Did he have a private room because he was a threat to the other kids, staff?

@craxd1 2 месяца назад

That probably contributed to it, but remember what Dumbledore laid it to, being born from a love potion, and not being able to love. However, it seems that Dumbledore was ignorant of psychology, since Tom had the classic signs of being born a psychopath. They cannot love and cannot feel empathy. Furthermore, I believe that Tom was from the dark triad personality traits of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. This can be genetic, and we can see how his father was a snooty elitist, and his mother had no compunctions about using a love potion on him. One or both could have been mentally ill. Both his uncle and grandfather showed the signs of psychopathy as well.

@Chief-Remeldian-Olympus 4 месяца назад

Voldemort path to evil does begin with a love potion. With one simple act this where we see Voldemort hatred for muggle to grow. Next would be the orphanage who later would grow in fear of him and never once showing him any acts of real kindness or love. Grouping in Second War World and the Great Depression didn't help his world view on muggles. Once Tom became seventeen he later learn of birth parents which only made his hatred for muggles grow more. During his time at Hogwarts he made friends with question able people who also shared his view on muggles. Adding more fuel to the already growing fire. The odds of Tom growing up as normal is slim. However there is chance for him to be normal if your had the right person show him.

@Mathewly09 4 месяца назад

Im a history nerd so i really enjoyed the history part also it does make sense that tom witnessing the war may have had more to with his life

@Mappster 3 месяца назад

the guy gone through so many horrible events and trauma, that i can not blame him to turn into what he was. life was so unfair with him damn

@TheRealCartman1 4 месяца назад

Sorry if this has been answered already but what where the other magic schools doing as Hogwarts was being attacked by Voldemort? Did they realize what was happening, dealing with their own attack or sitting back and seeing how it plays out?

@EMuro-wu7uy 4 месяца назад

Sometimes kids from bad homes finding pleasure in causing pain. When they see bad examples, it can show a bad path, occasionally children become amazing parents while others become people who enjoy causing pain and problems. It's easy for people with good examples to judge harshly.

@bikkiikun 2 месяца назад

You're missing one important point... being sorted into Slytherin house (a.k.a. the only house that reguarly produces dark wizards in significant numbers). Had he been put into Hufflepuff, instead, he likely not have been able to dabble so easily and deeply in the dark arts and gather followers to support him.

@virgilthomas7101 2 месяца назад

Unpopular opinion: dumbledore is the reason for Voldemort. The existence of a figure like dumbledore drove Tom riddle to push so hard and so far into the dark arts to become “the greatest dark wizard of all time” without such a rival I doubt he would have strived so hard to reach immortality. Without a legandary opponent Voldemort would probably have been content to rely on his exceptional skill

@sakurabender 2 месяца назад

finally someone acknowledges that the dark lord's environment was probably the reason why he became the way he did. also want to add that his kleptomania probably came from him stealing food and other goods (to sell) so that he could survive

@viix3815 26 дней назад

Yeah. This is pretty much explained in the book. His dad was drugged with a love potion when he was conceived, and children born that was are born without love.

@victoriar4637 3 месяца назад

It's very interesting to hear about how the real world circumstances of the period could have contributed to the character of Voldemort.

@jgrahamiii7749 2 месяца назад

Missing in this evaluation of a fictious character, while it is interesting and takes into account the actual history of England at the time accorded to Tom Riddle's education and growing up, there is one glaring fact supplied by J.K. Rowling herself and that is the Gaunt family was known for its streak of instability owning to the fact they married their own cousins. In short, Riddle Jr. inherited this unfortunate trait and was, to use another description Rowling applied to Bathilda Bagshot's later years, "she is as nutty as squirrel poo..." Riddle was not playing with a full deck to apply an Americanism to his condition.

@eurovianmutt 4 месяца назад

Both Harry and Voldemort were born and lived during times of war. Both were abused by caretakers. Both did not want to leave Hogwarts. I wonder what would have happened if Harry and Tom had lived the other’s life. Did the Gaunts have any money? Did Tom Inherit the Riddle house and the Gaunt shack? Where did Tom live after graduating from Hogwarts?

@scarameowSucksAtGaming 4 месяца назад

I consider harry and tom identical with one difference the people they met on the hogwarts express, harry met ron and hermiony, hermiony just like him and ron a kind pureblood and as such Harry's first impression of the wizarding world was positive and the sorting hat detected that and let harry into Griffindoor, whilst toms met the poncy tipe pureblood and dumbledore was suspicious from just the first meeting so he had a negative impression on the light and the dark, so if tom met someone like ron and hermiony even tho he'll still be a sociopath he would not be evil