All posts by Sayitasitis2

<p>I don’t think it (my narrative at least) promotes a “sympathy for the demon” syndrome or empathy, for a lack of a better term. It simply follows the life of a magical psychopath on a complex level and allows the reader to understand how Voldemort came to become, and if such emotions as empathy or sympathy get invoked by the story then it shows that the reader is human enough to feel them for such a character. The whole point is to show how one’s perception of the world and their painting everyone with a bush can lead to self-destruction. If not anything, it teaches the reader that this is not the road to go down, in life. If they once had extreme views about a whole group of people based on a few bad eggs, they’d realise that there is still room for change and if change never happens they could end up like Voldemort. </p><p>
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<p>The reason why I believe this would be great is because I read about Voldemort’s life and imagined that he would have had to constantly fight with his inner “demons”. How he discovered his magic, probably while being attacked by another child in his orphanage or by an abusive matron/patron, giving him severe punishments (much like how Credence was treated) only to release a huge burst of magic so powerful that it sets his attacker on fire, making him become terrified of it, and not wanting to use it again, and then discovering a snake following him and that he could talk to it etc.</p><p>
</p><p>I imagined that he was presented with situations to do good or bad and did good at first but then it came back to bite him in the back, making him to change his morality.</p><p>
</p><p>I imagine that he had enemies in the orphanage, kids who would bully him (like Draco did Harry), until he finally, after chapters and chapters of holding back or fighting his “demons”, decides to teach all of them a lesson, and then doesn’t stop there but holds the entire orphanage in subjugation (like an Imperious Curse).</p><p>
</p><p>He makes up his mind about how evil/cruel muggles are, and that they do not deserve any kind of mercy or opportunity to redeem themselves from his view. He makes the orphanage the family he never had by forcing them to be nice to him. All with wandless, underaged magic.</p><p>
</p><p>Then Dumbledore appears and introduces him to the Wizarding world and Hogwarts and he loves it (like Harry Potter did), and the fact that there were others like him. However, finds out that wizards were just as bad as muggles when it came to kindness.</p><p>
</p><p>He then decides to improve himself, which leads him down the path of “evil”. I’d like his prodigious magic to be showcased or expanded upon. How did he come to understand magic on such a fundamental level? </p><p>
</p><p>Because he did not want to return to his orphanage/Guant Family during Holidays or whatever, he stays back at Hogwarts to study more, and during this period, in the vast silence of the school’s walls, he hears someone talking to him, an eerie voice the size of the castle, tearing at the drums of his ears, pulling his curiosity towards the depths of school.</p><p>
</p><p>Following the voice, he finds the Chamber of secrets, discovers that he has a destiny which is engraved somewhere to convince him but fears and hesitates and even cryptically tells Dumbledore, though DB shoots it down as a figment if his imagination (giving him a long speech).</p><p>
</p><p>Then it happens again, the voice, and then he goes down to the Chamber again, then unknowingly opens it with parceltongue, and converses with the Basilisk, and befriends it.</p><p>
</p><p>I imagine that the Basilisk initially presents itself as a very old and wise creature, telling him about his destiny as the one to purify the wizarding world of muggle-ness (it says that anything muggle is evil and cruel, and Tom remembers the evil of his orphanage). </p><p>
</p><p>The snake tells him that wizards became evil (as Tom came to see for himself) because they had mixed with muggles and only pure bloods were untainted by evil (muggle-ness). Tom believes this. The snake teaches him more and more about magic, telling him about Slytherine and how he wanted to protect the wizarding world from muggle-ness but was betrayed by the other founders. He believes it and entitles himself as the saviour of the wizarding world by purging it of anything muggle (half-bloods, mudbloods, etc), and he does, but the snake says he must start with his own family first (to set an example) and this leads him to kill the Riddle Family. </p><p>
</p><p>The snake becomes a mentor and driving force, and even tells him about Horcruxes, because in order for him to become a saviour he’d have to die several times and only via a Horcrux can he come back. </p><p>
</p><p>The story chronicles his small victories an losses, the Potters and Longbottoms being his enemies, because they don’t understand the “bigger picture” and that he’s doing all of them a favour.</p><p>
</p><p>The story probably ends where he murders the Potters, and his curse rebounds when cast against Harry, and his spirit suffers leading up til Philosopher’s stone. </p>

<p>I’ve always put Hermione with Draco</p>

<p>@ValyrianWildfire Absolutely E-VERY-THING!! </p>

<p>@Azura I know snakes don’t have milk ( they aren’t mammals), my point is that he could have milked any other snake, being Parselmouthed and all that, but choose Nags instead, and their relationship seemed more intimate than any other person in the world. </p>

<p>@GraintheSeawing JK Rowling has hinted at three more films (4 in total) of the FB franchise.</p>

<p>I would also like to know the origins of magic. Who the first wizards were, how spells are actually created. </p>

<p>^Hermoine was never originally a Muggle. She was just as magical as the half and pure bloods, the only difference is that while they inherited their magic from either one or both magical parents or grandparents, she inherited her magic from an ancient, unknown magical ancestor, who was a witch or wizard. </p><p>
</p><p>Basically in the wizarding world magical families give birth to squibs (people born of magical families but lack any or enough magic to be a witch or wizard). Squibs are more or less Muggles, and because wizards discriminate them, they leave the wizarding world and marry muggles and live in the muggle world permanently and give birth to muggle children who still carry the magic gene and this gene continues to pass on for generations until suddenly a child is born and suddenly they can do magic. That child would be called a muggle-born witch, but they’re just as powerful as a half or pure blood. </p>

<p>Nagini. </p>