Voldemort's Father LIED About the Love Potion (His True Origins)

Voldemort's Father LIED About the Love Potion (His True Origins) - Harry Potter Theory

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24 күн бұрын

Voldemort’s conception was..Unusual to say the least, and it was the loveless union between his parents that set in motion his path of psychopathy. With a mother that chose death over her infant child, and a father that abandoned the both of them, it’s fair to say that Voldemort never stood much of a chance.
But what if Voldemort’s origin story isn’t exactly what we thought it was? What if Merope Gaunt, accused of giving Voldemort’s father Tom Riddle Sr a love potion..Never did anything of the sort? What if…Tom Riddle SR LIED?
Today we’re going to be discussing all of that and more as we unpack Vodemort’s origin story -uncovering some unknown truths about the early life of the most notorious dark wizard in history.
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@danyf.1442 21 күн бұрын

This theory does make sense (Merope making the potion is indeed hard to explain) but I don't think that's what JK wanted the readers to think. I think that the fact that Voldy is like that BECAUSE he was conceived using magic is too important of a point to dismiss it.

@booknerdlover3675 21 күн бұрын

I always thought that Dumbledore’s theory about Merope’s love potion was far-fetched and “romantic.”

@SapphireZeev36 21 күн бұрын

Something I have noticed. Certain magic like the creation of inferi, amortentia, the creation of horcruxes drinking unicorn blood. They can be a goal but there is always something impermanent and hollow about them. As if the magic itself mocks life or the thing it tries to imitate. And the real thing always wins out.

@janeyrevanescence12 14 күн бұрын

I feel so sorry for Merope. She grew up in the dysfunctional family from hell, found a way out and several months of happiness…only to be abandoned by the man she loved and being too broken to live.

@LyleFrancisDelp 21 күн бұрын

I don't see Tom Sr "lying" about the potion. He just didn't understand it, as he didn't understand magic.

@lauramiller4939 21 күн бұрын

This interpretation is so much better, thank you for declaring it. I always hated the post-publication lore (that a child conceived under a love potion would never know love, which was never even mentioned in the books). And wouldn't love potions have become illegal and banned from potion books once it was known that conceptions made under its influence would be cursed to a life without love? Didn't JK write the chapter of Tom as a boy to ensure readers would see he intentionally made only jerk choices? Too bad HBP (the film) really screwed that scene up by changing Tom's line from "I can do bad things to people who annoy me" to "I can do bad things to people who are mean to me," and even had him do the pouty lip thing! That was so aggravating!

@Knowledge.to_Come 21 күн бұрын

His mom didn’t love him she only loved his father. She got pregnant so Tom Sr. Would stay with her. Once he left her she lost the will to live and to raise the child. Not only was Voldemort born from fake love his mother didn’t love him enough to raise him.

@Bargle5 21 күн бұрын

As for how Merope got Tom Marvolo to drink the potion, I suspect that he may have been a bit drunk at the time and would have swallowed anything handed to him.

@gabrielepolsinelli3701 21 күн бұрын

I have never thought that Merope was the villain of the story: she was a poor girl abused by everyone... in tour theory, even by the man she maybe didn't love, but at least was infatuted by. This Is enough to male your child become the biggest Dark Wizard of all times.

@caesumisrude 21 күн бұрын

It was mentioned several times in the video that inbreeding was one of the reasons why Merope's magic wasn't developing well, but is it actually implied so in the books? Iirc pure-blood families believed keeping their tree intact helped with their magical abilities but it caused mental issues as a downside. Morfin Gaunt was clearly mentally unstable but his magical powers seemed acceptable. Since we know Merope actually improved significantly after her brother and father went to Azkaban, I think it's safe to assume her magical abilities were actually far superior than what Bob Ogden saw back in the Gaunt Shack..? About the money issue, Merope did sell Slytherin's locket when she needed money, so maybe there were other memorabilia in the shack she sold for the potion ingredients.

@mtk064 21 күн бұрын

I liked to think that Merope didn't make a love potion. Her primary source of control was wandless and wordless magic. She lost control over Tom sr. because her body needed its power to grow the baby. But I really like the idea of Tom sr. lying and manipulating just like his son even more.

@amaliaregno5282 21 күн бұрын

I agree with most of what you’ve suggested here except that Tom Riddle would have genuinely married her. He might have arranged a fake marriage to keep her quiet, but rich people stay that way by guarding their money carefully - and not marrying poor people!

@Neuromant1991 21 күн бұрын

Interesting theory.

@anadmirer8789 14 күн бұрын

This new theory makes so much more sense, but I think you left a crucial part out. Perhaps Merope did naively create what she thought was a love potion, though it didn’t actually work. Instead, Tom Riddle Sr. cruelly played along, making Merope believe that the “potion” had successfully done its job. Far too late did Merope realize she’d been manipulated by Tom Sr., with him only pretending to be bewitched in order to take advantage of her. And once the spoiled narcissist got what he wanted, he abandoned his wife and their unborn child. Worse yet, he slandered her to the entire community. Faced with such treachery and shame, it’s no wonder poor Merope chose to die rather than continue on with her newborn son.

@AliceBlackwood 21 күн бұрын

Yes, Dumbledore was speculating here, but we all believe that he was right. IF Merope used magic on/agains Voldemort's dad why wasn't she arrested too? The Ministry just sent Morfin to Azkaban for cursing Tom Sr. and Ogden gave a chapter long explanation to how he broke the International Statute of Secrecy and then we are supposed to belive the Ministry just didn't care when Merope started to abuse the very same muggle?

@eliasbram3710 21 күн бұрын

Just a note of pshyicopatology, psychopaths are born, not made. The ambient around them just promotes de set of abilities, goals and anger/inspiration they will have, but psychopaths are born regardless of the infancy

@theafaith23 21 күн бұрын

A highly plausible theory I'd never considered. I also agree Tom Jr. might have guessed (learned?) what his father did. Merope, during the birth, might have let slip some things he later overheard. Dumbledore tells Harry at the start of HBP that they're "leaving the firm foundation of fact" for the "thickets of wildest guesswork". A love potion would appeal to Dumbledore's romantic streak. You have a real gift for tilting accepted scenes a certain degree, and presenting a different view. Great work!