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Okay you guys let's talk a little bit about Tom Riddle aka the Dark Lord

aka Lord.

The character and the person are pretty much just evil all the way through

and pretty much have been since the beginning.

And at times I felt like this made him slightly less compelling because when you have a character who's just evil for the sake of being evil, it's like less relatable.

Bald and Mortgus at this age, Tom Riddle's upbringing wasn't very typical, but we know even from a very

young age without any example set for him, he was already using things like pain, fear, manipulation,

and bullying to get his way.

And while I never got the idea that Wool's orphanage was like the happiest place,

I also don't think it was the driving force for why he turned out the way he did.

But to get me wondering, is it possible

Baltimore it was just like a loving childhood away

from being the next most talented wizard,

the next Dumbledore instead of the next Grindlewald?

Like say for example, what if Baltimore had been raised by Molly Weasley or someone like that? Like

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