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I don't think this really hurts his character or the story in any sense. In my opinion, it fits quite well with Dumbledore's line "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love." Voldemort had nothing stopping him from feeling love. He was perfectly capable of it, and he shows small signs of something similar to it at some points (calling Nagini "dear", getting angry when his mother is called a thief, quietly reminiscing over the family he never had after his resurrection, trying to justify using the magical cage to Nagini, making that cage a beautiful one which glimmers with stars to presumably make Nagini more comfortable, etcetera). However, he didn't care for love; he saw it as nothing special, something insignificant. He acknowledged Lily's sacrifice as a powerful counter charm made of love, one he should have expected, but he dismissed it as the act of a "foolish girl" and proceeded to gloat about how his magic was able to overcome it. Furthermore, he seems to be of the opinion that his parents' love was not one-sided, that his father merely "abandoned her when she told him what she was" out of a simple dislike for magic. Word of the author tells us that this was a false assumption, but Voldemort is certain enough of this course of events, perhaps due to prejudice or because he knows something Dumbledore didn't, that he feels confident in saying that the only reasons his father left were that he "he found out his wife was a witch" and "He didn't like magic, my father..." To Voldemort, this would be a sign that love is something fragile, something fleeting which falls apart when simple prejudice becomes involved. And since this abandonment killed his mother and left him to grow up in a loveless environment, why would he ever care for love or see it as meaningful? Honestly, I think this fits better into the message of the story. Voldemort's childhood was miserable, and he grew into an awful person because he only ever had reason to see love as worthless and so lived without it. If his mother had survived, he may have had a better life, and he himself seems to realize this given that he seemingly mourns the fact that he grew up without a family. As a child, perhaps he could have been redeemed, but he didn't want to be. He made choices that furthered his own goals to everyone else's detriment, committing atrocities which could never be undone. By the time of his death, there was no saving Voldemort; he was happy with his life, he enjoyed hurting people and gaining power, and he had long since crossed the "moral event horizon" which prevents redemption. As for the fact that this humanizes him, I think that was the point of his story. Despite everything he did, despite transforming himself into a monstrous abomination, he was still perfectly human. This is cemented when he falls to the ground, "shrunken and feeble," and dies the human death that had always terrified him.

Voldemort destroyed his ability to love when he began making horcruxes. He chose that path. That is what makes him truly evil. He had the ability. He had the potential. He deliberately chose to destroy his ability to love in order to gain power. Never forget there is just as much to do with the choices people make in the series, than with fate. Harry had a similar upbringing to Voldemort. He grew up without love. He could have easily chose to hate the Dursleys. He chose to love them. Lily chose to give her life to save her boy. In the final battle, everyone chose what side they were throwing in for. Love is powerful, but just as powerful are the choices you make. I'm fairly certain that was made clear when it was revealed that the sorting hat didn't actually sort Harry into Gryffindor. Harry chose not to be in Slytherin.

Well I think that Voldemort was complex and that it was difficult for him to understand love but not impossible. The reason I think it’s not impossible is Harry final choice that he gave Voldemort. He gave Voldemort the chance to regret his choices. To feel remorse. This means. There was a chance. Even if very small that even at the very end. Voldemort could have chosen to feel sympathy. Even if it was for himself. I think his inability to understand love was a progress of bad choices and terrible things that happened to him. Love potion-his mom was depressed while he was in the womb- she abandoned him. At the orphanage he was ignored and feared. Then the rest were his choices to not accept love from others but to take advantage of them. Then finally the damage done by his horcruxes. But Even after all of that. I think he had the hidden potential to love. But he saw it as a weakness and dogmatically refused

I think a distinction that Tom Riddle could have loved but the diminished soul that is Voldemort can no longer do so might be a more nuanced way to look at this.

Could it be possible that Merope started forming an obscurial while pregnant with Tom? It did say she refused to use magic anymore and ive never heard that only children can become one

I’ve always believed the Voldemort was a product of Merope Gaunt suppressing her magic. Basically creating an obscures. The obscurus absorbed her life completely and the darkness transferred to Voldemort.

It does explain why he thought to give Lily the choice to surrender Harry, seeing as his own mother gave up on him. That must have been very unpleasant to witness what actual motherly love looked like.

I just assumed he was a clinical psychopath, made worse by his creation of Horcrux's which destroyed any semblance of his essential biological goodness. I'm a teacher of young children. I've worked with kids for 18 years. I've known many many troubled kids, who lacked love and structure in their lives. It was clear to see they had a very narrow prospect for a happy future, but also clear that all it might take is a lot of love and a new environment to help them. Kids are, very broadly, good little people, capable of love no matter what. I always consider how all murderers or criminals were once in kindergarten and needed help. But I did have one kid who had zero moral compass, zilch none. Liked to hurt the other kids with no remorse. He really was different. But still I'd like to think there might have been hope for even him. So...what if Voldemort had been adopted by the Weasleys? As a baby? I do think everything would have been different. Nature vs Nurture I guess.

I’m pretty sure it is known how Merope gave him the potion, it’s part of the memory of the ministry worker that Harry and Dumbledore entered together. If I’m not mistaken, it was just a hot day and she offered the Riddles something to drink.

"love" can have multiple definitions. Voldemort loved power, the dark arts, and snakes. Supposedly he couldn't "love" a person, because his mother used a love potion on his father. So he had no parents, and was alone most of his life. maybe it's not that he can't love, but he didn't want to attempt it. Because no one gave it to him. They say no one is born evil. It's how we react to life.

I have a head canon that Voldemort was at one time capable of love and had love for someone very unexpected... Myrtle Warren aka Moaning Myrtle. Myrtle was teased a bullied because of her appearance while in school. If you think about it, Tom Riddle was probably bullied by his own house in at least his first three years. When Riddle started at Hogwarts, as far as anyone knew, including Tom himself, Riddle was a Muggleborn. Yet he was sorted into Slytherin house which had to be unheard of at that point in time. I can easily see Tom being bullied unmercilessly by older Slytherin students. It's probably what fueled his obsession with his parentage. He probably thought that if he could find some magical blood in his family line the bullying might stop. Then Myrtle comes along and he sees her being bullied constantly. Maybe she witnessed some of his bullying too. I can see a secret relationship/friendship developing between the two. Not unlike the relationship/friendship that developed between Moaning Myrtle and Draco Malfoy in Halfblood Prince. I can see Tom covertly jinxing and hexing people picking on Myrtle. Though he probably wouldn't retaliate against any Slytherin picking on her. I can see him going too far at times which wouldn't sit well with Myrtle. Over time they drift apart. Myrtle isn't happy that Tom still wants to keep their friendship a secret. They get into a fight and he calls her a mudblood. Myrtle is hurt and confused as why he would call her such a disgusting slur when he is muggle born too. But by that time Tom already knows that he is half blood and the heir of Slytherin. Tom continues to protect Myrtle covertly which Myrtle tells him not to do any more. Then one day Tom sees Olive Hornby bully Myrtle to tears. Myrtle runs off crying and Tom is furious. Tom remembers that Myrtle doesn't want him protecting her any more and refrains from cursing Olive. Later at lunch Tom sees that Myrtle isn't at her house table. He is seething with anger because he knows she is off somewhere crying. Tom decides to go look for Myrtle but as he passes by Olive Hornby whispering to her friends. He overhears her plotting her next plan to humiliate Myrtle. This sends Tom's fury beyond on reasoning. Olive Hornby must die. Tom storms out of the great Hall and heads for the chamber of secrets. Tom enters the girls bath room but in his anger, he forgot to check that the bath room was empty. Tom summons the Basilisk with the intention of ordering it to kill Olive Hornby. Myrtle hears Tom speaking parseltongue but doesn't recognize that it's Tom's voice and bursts out of the bathroom stall to tell whoever is there to go away. Tom looks on in horror as Myrtle crumples to the floor dead after looking into the eyes of the Basilisk. Tom orders the Basilisk back into the chamber closing it up and drops to his knees beside Myrtle and cries. Tears pour down his face as he looks down at the vacant stare of the only person he ever cared about. The only person who ever truly cared about him. But it it isn't just tears pouring from Tom. Its every bit of love he was ever capable of pouring out of him all for her. He would never again be able to love anyone or anything. After several minutes Tom stops crying. He stands up and dries his eyes on his sleeve. He looks down at the body once more. Only now his gaze is cold as ice. He decides it was for the best as Myrtle would have been a weakness for him. He decides to make her death mean something and uses it to create his first horcrux. Tom then turns and walks out of the bathroom leaving Myrtle's body to be found hours later..

The entire story just works better if Voldemort is incapable of love. It's stated repeatedly that he just cant understand it and is frequently thwarted because he didn't plan for an emotional reaction from his enemies and allies. Dumbledore says Voldemort doesn't value anything he doesn't understand. The concept of love is somewhat complex and a little different for everyone, but not difficult to understand unless you're incapable of feeling it. He is meant to be the ultimate antithesis in a story who's theme is "love and unity always triumph". Him being redeemable ruins the lesson we're meant to learn at the end and breaks the dichotomy that had been building from the beginning. Voldemort is filled with hate and anger, enjoys cruelty, causing suffering and destruction, is as selfish as one can possibly be, and is completely obsessed with preserving himself even if it means disrupting the natural order. He never does a single positive thing throughout the entire series. He serves as a warning of what living without love can do to a person and how that can cause them to hurt and destroy everything around them, which is taken to the extreme because magic. Rowling trying to reinvent her story after the fact should be ignored, it doesn't fit anymore than Dumbledore all of a sudden being gay and his friendship with Grindelwald now being a love affair that is not implied in the text.

I’ve never viewed Voldemort as incapable of love. Love is such a broad subject that what one might consider love others may not. After all love is such a powerful force in HP that’s it’s kept locked up in the Department of Mysteries for study. Love can be very dangerous and make people do things unimaginable to others who might not see love in the other. As for Voldemort I don’t think as an adult Dark Lord he is capable of love and understanding it the way we do. He very well may have loved Nagini but to him he wouldn’t recognize it for what it was and even if he did he wouldn’t admit it to himself. Of course it was his history and upbringing that shaped him to what he became. It’s not like he is incapable of love by nature. Had Merope lived we could only imagine what would become of her son. (Which would make an interesting video please and thank you). Its by chains of events in Voldemorts life that refrain him from love and understanding it. Not by nature or genetics but rather is childhood.

In OotP when V "posesses" Harry, he couldn’t bare the emotions Harry felt for his friends. So if he is indeed capable of love, wouldn’t that suggest it would cause him agony?

Voldemort isn’t meant to be irredeemable (as you put it). Harry presents him with a final chance to think about what he has done and try for some remorse. It is our choices that define us, Voldemort ultimately chooses not to be redeemed.

I always thought since in the books he screamed when Bellatrix died he did felt some kind of love or affection for her. And to me that ment he was capable of feeling love but just that its very difficult for him. Or something he ignores as he doesnt understand it.

One thing I would really like to learn about is how dumbledore came across voldemort in the first place I meant how he learnt of toms excistance because as the orphanage said he never had a visitor or any family so not like someone called tell dumbledore about Tom

I think that she was saying he "could have" had the ability to love, but because he didn't he didn't. Doesn't really change anything for me. And people like Dumbledore and Harry gave him all the chances he needed. He still turned away because, as he was, he could not feel what they felt. He couldn't even stand to be in Harry's body when Harry was feeling the love. If things had been different for Moldy Voldy then he would have been different for sure, but because they weren't then he is not. lol

Voldemort's mother dying after he was born definitely affected his ability to feel love, because she couldn't raise him and love him. That would make it harder for him to feel love but may not make him incapable of it. Further, Voldemort did feel some form of love for Nagini and possibly Bellatrix. It doesn't hurt his character but adds a layer of complexity to it.

He may not of loved bellatrix but he did care for her i never read the last book but i was told when bellatrix got killed voldemort yelled in anger so he must of atleast cared about her and i do think he really cared about nagini too thats why i think he made her a horcrux.

Voldemort being incapable of love was Dumbledore's interpretation and Dumbledore sometimes underestimated people. That was exemplified in Snape's "Always." Dumbledore also got into Tom's pysche since Day 1 by keeping a watchful eye on him. Was Voldemort Dumbledore's making in a way?

Another little known misconception about Voldemort is that almost everybody pronounces his name wrong. Rowling says the T is supposed to be silent but gave up on trying to correct that misconception it was so prevalent

Love to hear your theories and in such a soothing voice! This got me thinking, love potion can have a side effect sort of curse, maybe can be broken by true love. Also, this 'curse' coupled with the not so magical mental illnesses he no doubt incurred, seems like he certainly could have overcome them but the odds were stacked against him and ultimately he did choose his path.

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Is HP and The Cursed Child cannon? If so, Lord Voldemort had a daughter with Bellatrix Lestrange, who was named Delphini.

I actually like the idea of him being somewhat more complex and even having a tiny potential for good in theory. But hes still very bad. You can be capable of feeling some emotions without letting it be a guiding force in your life and it may be less dominant than other feelings. Kind of like Claude Frollo from bells of notreadame, does show some capacity to feel guilt and question his action, but always ends up choosing against it, going into denial and let other desires rule (I have only watched the movie and heard he is not as evil in the book)

i never thought that voldemort was unable to feel love, i thought he was unable to feel love for people

I think its possible to explore a different type of love here. In voldermorts case, it wasnt so much a love of people - but a love of power. He loved being the 2nd most powerful wizard of his age (coming 2nd to dumbledore). He loved lording himself over others & he loved that other people fawned over him (death eaters etc) its not a wholesome, warm kind of love that lilly had for harry or what the weasleys have for each other. In voldermorts case, its a narcissistic kind of love. He loves hismelf so much, that he creates horcruxes so he doesnt die. He loves himself so much, that he has built an entire cult around himself & has studied a lot to protect himself. In terms of bellatrix, its 100% possible he could have loved her and just had no idea how to show it. But i think he also really respected her for her natural power & her need to inflict pain on others.

If Voldemort WAS capable of feeling love, then that makes him even more evil - because of the hundreds of murders he committed - he destroyed families. A human who is capable of loving other humans understands the far-reaching effects of killing others.

Remember that here in the real world, no one is born evil. They become evil after years of systematic abuse. The real problem is that they feel too much and those unfortunate enough to be around them or in their path suffer for them. Their lives are often empty, forsaken, and truly pitiful.

I think Voldemort is not capable of love because of his own misconsceptions. He like many veiwers believes he cant feel love so he dosn't reconize it when he does.

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Whilst I agree that he loved Naggini I'd guess this is because he had placed part of his soul in her. Albeit I'd argue that Voldermort's inability to feel love extended to self-love as well.

Never though Voldemort was incapable of love. I just thought he saw love as a weakness, and therefore couldn't be bothered with it. How many times does he mock Dumbledore about love, and him thinking that love is a powerful force. He sees Lily's loving sacrifice as "foolish". He uses Harry's love for his Godfather as a tactic to lure him into the Department of Mysteries. He sees Lucius's love for Draco as pathetic. I think maybe he even blames love for his mother's death. If she hadn't "loved" his father, she wouldn't have used a love potion on him, got rejected, and then die from a broken heart. I can see Voldemort thinking love left his mother weak, and because of that she gave up and died. In Voldemort's mind maybe love = death.

I never thought Voldemort was incapable of love. I just thought he had a hard time at gauging the feeling than most people do.

Great video as always.

1. Maybe he was capable of love but he was NEVER exposed to it therefor never knew it. 2. Just because he was capable of feeling it doesn't mean he's capable of understanding/dealing with it. 3. Given the way he was conceived and raised he would most likely not trust Love. 4. All of which would of been rendered moot when he split his soul making Horcruxes.

like the saying goes, A mother's is so unique that nothing is near comparable to it, since Tom didnt have a mother and his father didnt true love him, also he grew in the orph, its safe to say, he has no understanding of what true love is

Well done video my man. I of course read the books so I understood you right away. But this is such a shame that the movies don't explain good enough/at all about Voldemort's past. I don't remember that in the HBP movie Morfin, Marvolo or Merope are even mentioned. I know they didn't cast them I just can't remember if they said the names. And neither Bob Ogden for that matter. The meeting between Bob and the mad Gaunts was super important to understanding Voldemort. Missed opportunity that I hope will be fixed in the HBO Max show.

He definitely loved Draco😂

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I like how Voldemort's mom basically raping a guy over a prolonged period with a love potion was meant to be a sympathetic trait

Personally I think Voldemort being capable of love yet it just being extremely hard for him. Fit better than being incapable of love in the first place. If he was incapable of love then why was he able to hate things. Hatred is the other side of the coin when it comes to love (I view the opposite of love as indifference or something similar to it). Voldemort's hardness in his ability to love could also be why the power of love was so effective on him. The more he rejected the more effective it was on him in the end. Also has the power of love been used on anyone other then Voldemort. Such is extremely hard to use properly but has the effects of it on someone, that can feel love without all the issues and problems Voldemort had, ever been shown or explained at some time.

6:40 this is interesting on a personal level. I believed for decades that there was something wrong with me because I never felt empathy, and everyone around me seemed to either constantly feel it or at least say they did. I'm a diagnosed autistic as well. When I was 33 I met my husband(he was the first person that I've been able to really trust, he is always there for me and being around him is as comfortable as being alone which was a first!) and after a while something unfortunate happened that affected the both of us, and at that moment I had this "wow"-moment, I felt so much worse for his loss than mine. So I guess it took the right person and circumstances for me to realize that I can feel empathy after all.

I always thought that Notion of Voldemort being Incapable of Love was ridiculous....NO Human could be completely Incapable of Love! If he was Incapable of Love....then the whole premise of Voldemort Having multiple chances to change his destiny for the better is thrown out the window and he must be held Blameless for his crimes as he essentially had no power over his creation! I'm not surprised J.K. Rowling was essentially misquoted on the topic.

It's pretty disturbing that Voldemort's father could have been Morfin, if Morfin didn't get jelly of his future wife longing for another man.

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Love is not a benevolent force. It is a complicated emotion. It brings just as much pain and selfishness as selflessness. Hatred is not the opposite of love, just loce on the opposite polarity. If Voldemort could feel hatred, he could feel love. Evil is nothing but a human perception, as Voldemort says. There is only power, and those too scared to use it. He just never learned some power, is too costly to be used.

I ain't think for a while he couldn't understand it as in like a child wouldn't understand it so that's how we felt about nagini but he didn't quite really know how to put it and then when cycle lady comes in that's when it really appears because when she dies he really feels it you can tell by his face and a little bit of I believe anger sadness and disbelief that she died

He probably was capable of love as a child but he began creating horcruxes at an early age. So he might have lost certain elements of his humanity as he lost portions of his soul.

I never believed that it was the love potion that prevented him from feeling love mostly because it would make no sense. Think about how common its use is, if it had that kind of effect there would be a lot more people unable to love... That said I also think Merope didn't just die of a broken heart, I think she wanted to die to protect her son. Think about it, her brother and father would have gotten out soon enough, do you think either one of them would have let her stay away? They would have forced her to return home and if they didn't kill her son outright they would have made his life as much a hell as they did hers living abused in squaller and likely never allowing him to go to Hogwarts. By her dying there was a better chance his father would have taken him and he would live the good life or at worst he'd live in the orphanage where at least he'd be clean, fed and able to go to Hogwarts. I think Voldemort realized that, the murder of the Riddles was way to personal. I'm sure he could already read minds when he met his uncle and he saw what they did to his mother and he was pissed! Then he walked into these rich peoples home and I'm sure it stung seeing the life he should have had... and what do you think they said to him? I think even if he hadn't ripped his soul making a Horcrux I think his soul would have been damaged after learning all that. He also got mad when he learned that Borgin & Burkes had basically ripped off his mother for her locket when she likely should have gotten enough money to come up with some kind of plan.

I'm a fan of the theory that Voldemort is the human personification of an obscurus. Not an obscurial, but rather the form that the obscurus inside of his mother took as it developed alongside and as a part of the child growing inside of her. It's why Voldemort was so abnormally powerful and why he seemed to be inherently evil.

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I always thought the lack of love was due to his literally breaking his soul into seven bits. LOL. Could make it a bit difficult. However, I do feel he loved the snake, Nagini. I don't feel Rowling dropping this in an interview should count as particular set in stone canon personally, it should be dropped in the books to be canon if you ask me. I mean she's dropped some other facts' after the books that don't exactly line up with it so... Just something to consider. Bellatrix L

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Of course Voldemort loves Nagini. She’s part of himself and he loves himself

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I'm the only one curious about what lord voldemort did in his spare time? lol i mean, does he have any hobbies and stuff like that? lol

Children that suffer abandonment, when growing up, often feel the need to demonstrate to others (and themselves) that they don't need anyone and are self-sufficient, and also feel the desperate need of self-fullfilment, to prove they are "worthy of love", that they are better than others (often themselves) think. They also grow up with a severe sense of inferiority and insecurity, that force them to constantly live in a defensive mechanism. Plus, discovering what his mother did was a punch to the gut for his ego, something that would definitely twist his sense of self, exponentially increasing his insecurity and inferiority complex. So, yea, Voldemort could definitely understand the concept of love, and could actually feel love, but for him, that was a sign of weakness, a debilitation, a distraction from his life goal of becoming "the greatest wizard in history".

When I read the 1st couple of books I thought, "Oh yeah, all this love stuff is just because it's aimed at kids. At the end, she'll flesh it out a bit more." (Like Harry was too young to understand what really happened with his mother when he was 11 or 12). But nope.

With this like of thinking, I’d argue that like any subject he may be able to understand it more than previously thought, but his experience causes him to lack the capability to practice it. A muggle analogy would be that most of us have taken a biology class in high school, but that doesn’t make everyone a surgeon. Or you know how to put gas in your car, but that doesn’t make you a master mechanic

I always thought that the source of his evil was his fear of death. If he just didn't feel love, why would death be repugnant? Often the reaction to lack of love is depression, despair, suicide. But Voldemort had a horror of dying, once he realized it claims muggles and magicals alike. Death is the final enemy, the ultimate weakness. Voldemort will do anything to live forever, forever strong. It's all he has or believes in.

Or. He’s just a dangerous psychopath with a long history of violence.

I don't think it is that he incapable of love, he just disdains it and sees it as a weakness to be exploited. Thus, seeing himself as having no weakness, chooses not to feel love.

That’s something else Tom and Harry had in common. Both of their moms died on a holiday. New Years and Halloween.

Wasn't Harry born without parents in a house where he was not treated with anyform of Love. I guess the video makes a lot of sense!

She also later said, that she imagined Hermoine as black, even though there is text evidence speaking of her white face (not that it would matter to me just want to point out that JKR likes to contradict herself). It is clearly stated in the books that a child born under the influence of a love potion isnt capable of feeling love (for others). I give you the Nagini thing though since he probably "loved" himself a lot and the snake is a Horkrux so basically himself.

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I mean, the fact that Voldemort was able to love doesn't change anything as most of the other dark wizards were able to love or weren't procreated under a love potion like Voldemort. Also, the idea that Voldemort was evil just because of that love potion weakens and simplifies his character and the story for me, as it removes every responsibility or agency he has over his wrong doings and choices (like a vampire sucking blood just because that's what vampires do). That also would diminish Harry's action of choosing love and friendship as his strength because he was able to do so (as he also was able to become a dark wizard) while Voldemort would never be capable of doing that because it simply wasn't in his nature. Voldemort finding his demize by choosing power over meaningful relationships only is a powerful message and ending to the story is he also was able to choose love and friendship.

Dumbledore SUSPECTS that she used a love potion. It wasn't confirmed ... unless J.K confirmed it that i don't know about

Even capable of love or not doesn’t matter to his motivations. In the end he wanted to live forever and rule as much of the world as possible. By any means necessary, maybe if raised by his mother he wouldn’t turn out this way. But he doesn’t need to be incapable of love to make him work as a all evil villain. Because in the end he chooses that being the master of death is the most important to him over anything else

Old Moldy did love, just the wrong kind. He loved Power.

I have often wondered why he gave Lily the chance to get out of the way before he killed Harry. Was he teasing her? Did he feel a small bit of obligation to Snape?

Yeah

that would mean he has love towards power toward the essence of being a magical creature

Being capable of love does not block you from the capacity to do evil. In fact, some people use love as a justification to do great acts of evil

He was a sociopath/psychopath. Just like Bellatrix, Barty Jr., and many other Death Eaters. It doesn't mean they are completely incapable of love. Just that they have far less likely to feel that emotion than a normal human. There are also plenty of other symptoms/characteristics of sociopathy/psychopathy including impulsivity/lack pf self control, recklessness, and sexual promiscuity, as well as high intelligence yet an inability to learn from one's own mistakes. Like all diseases, disorders, and syndromes, not every symptom is preaent in every diagnosed person, and especially not to the same degrees. Most people who do have it are likely undiagnosed, mainly because a diagnosis(using the current criteria used today) requires a criminal record before the age of 17, and if one never gets caught theyobviously can never be diagnosed under the current criteria... Also, most people have/display at least one trait/symptom.

Voldemort's evil character comes from his miserable childhood and the trauma he experienced and the lack of love. Although he despises love and rejects it, he clearly sees that he is jealous of Harry that he receives love and support etc. Ralph Fiennes the actor who plays Voldemort (adult) and says he understands Voldemort's "loneliness", since he has never loved or been loved in his life. “He doesn't know what love is, it's a language he doesn't understand. He only thinks about gaining power, and controlling and manipulating as many people as possible (...), but I always think that there is good in each of us. Voldy is also a very suspicious person and does not trust people other than himself, moreover he clearly sees that the people around him betray easily and do not tell the truth example with: Dumbledore and Lucius. This is why he insists so much on loyalty! I remember Albus Dumbeldor's words to Harry in The Deathly Hallows." "Do not pity the dead, Harry, rather pity the living, and especially those who live without love.", Who lives without love in the saga? The answer is logical, obvious: Voldelmort. Dumbledore tries to tell Harry that Voldemort may be more powerful than him, but he is to be pitied above all others. In other words, that Harry is despite everything more powerful than Voldemort thanks to the force of love. What Dumbledore also explains to us is that behind Voldemort's anger and fury we see a deeply sad man. I also wanted to add that the key tendencies of Tom Riddle Alias ​​​​Voldy come from the fact that he is an orphan as he never had anything. He takes or snatches from others everything he would have liked to have. He indulges in lies by pretending to be a pure blood because he would really like to be one in fact. But above all, be accepted into wizarding society. As people do not care about him, he likes to be the center of attention and to be interested in him and to recognize his abilities, he likes to be admired and feared. Thanks for video ^^

This was always what I theorized, without a mother to give unconditional love, there is no way for him to ever have it. He us no different then any Villanova, thinks only of himself and care or thought to others.

I always thought merope stopped giving Tom the love potion after she was pregnant because she believed he really did love her and that he’d stay for the baby. He abandoned her while she was still pregnant. She sold the locket to borgin and Burkes in an attempt to have money. He knows it’s a slytherin heirloom but tells her it’s worth next to nothing but she sells it to him for pennies anyways. She died at the orphanage after giving birth and she told them he was to be named Tom marvolo riddle after his father and grandfather.

I always wondered why Merope gave her baby the middle name Marvolo. Her father was so mean to her, so logically she wouldn’t give his name to her child

Voldemort be gangsta until Bellatrix conjures up a strap on

I’ve also wondered how the story would have been effected if Voldemort had been adopted as a new born by muggle parents who raised and cherished him with love.

Merope invited Tom Sr. To have a drink of water on a hot day and it was laced with the love potion.

Agree mate

Also, he might not be able to romantically love but he does love. He is visually shaken at the death of Bellatrix in both movie and book implying that he did have love for her and her loyalty

I always thought Voldemort being incapable to love was do to the love spell his mother used on his father

Since all the names were made up in this series of books the only way to know with 100% certainty the names are being said correctly is for the author to inform the reader (footnote or something).

With this in mind does this effect the Bellatrix giving Voldemort a love potion story?

The two ideas are very conflicting. It’s strange that JK Rowling has canon suggesting that Voldemort is incapable of love, but later stated that it’s just very difficult for him to love. This is an area where the lore becomes almost useless and I’m not a big fan of that.

The books involve love triumphing over darkness. A mother's love is a massive thing in the Harry Potter books/universe. Lily's sacrifice, Narcissa and Draco, Molly defending her kids etc. Voldy's mother didn't love him, and he's not into love. So people in orphanages or people without 2 happy loving parents become serial killers? Bit lazy, JK :S

Redeption LOl ok the only way he do that Is destroy his Ability to been redeemed And that would Be tough thing to write

Voldemort was a protypical psychopath...or having one of the extremes on the ASPD scale. He is actually incapable of love by the time we see him as a young boy....and was already "experimenting" with abnormal cruelty to children...rather free with "ownership" of things he desired...and was unafraid of adults, being used to power and intimidation at a young age. None of the typical criteria seems present; Tom Riddle Jr. wasn't treated any worse than any other orphan...yet, he developed a cruelty anyways. His environment, while bleak and unenviable, wasn't worse than Harry's own upbringing. So, if not circumstances...or environment.. Then it leads toward genetics. And if that's the root cause, Merope being a poor destitute mother figure may not have resolved that "weak" mother aspect that he learned when she "let herself die". She was an abused girl...mentally and physically. Voldemort, at some point, would have discarded his need of her.

er voldermort doesn't feel love in the conventional sense, as in another person he could not truly love being wary and suspicious of them and their intentions, so logically following psychology voldemort found love within himself and found love in some blasted vague concept of power being the end all be all of existence which led him down a very steep, very treacherous, slippy slope unto the path of the standard ham (I would say moustache twirling but voldemort never had a moustache or facial hair to my knowledge and then he either chose to or lost his nose upon resurrection in little hangleton so I shrug) dark wizard. Though I can't say that I myself haven't perpetuated a time or three; the voldemort can't love because of the love potion back story that we get in probably the most lore dense book I barely remember reading even after reading: The half blood prince.

Voldemort being able to show affection for Nagini and "love" does not redeem him. But yeah, it adds some complexity to him. It reminds me of a holocaust story, actually.

Ever since Freud many people try to eyplain evil people rationally, causally and pathologically. But not all evil people because there is something wrong with their childhood or their brain, some are evil because they are evil. In my opinion it's also because people try to find a simple, rational explanation rather than a morally difficult one - they don't necessarily have to be evil, they could be good, so why are they evil?

Oh "love"

Voldemort loved two things himself and power. Or it can be reduced to one thing that being magic.

You just have to wonder how big Meropes potential was if she was able to produce a love potion on her own, without practically no magical training whatsoever.