FILED UNDER: #[ idr if i have this somewhere ]  #[ so here it is again ]  #| past. present. future.  #| dark lord.  #| without remorse.  #[ as ralph said in an interview ]  #[ tom isn't the personification of EVIL ]  #[ he's the epitome of HUMAN EVIL ]  #[ of HUMAN CRUELTY; there's a mind inside him ]  #[ he's jealous and wrathful and lonely ]  #[ love ought to be destroyed because he never had it ]  #[ but that doesn't excuse a damn thing ]  #[ i'm not romanticizing his past ]  #[ because HE made the CHOICE to never learn ]  #[ to never try to understand ]  #[ he can spare a child on halloween who compliments his 'costume' ]  #[ and he thought about it; he really did; the kid would never make it back to mummy ]  #[ but he didn't ]  #[ x years later he's threatening to kill every single man; woman; and child ]  #[ who stands between him and harry potter ]  #[ he is the epitome of human emotion ]  #[ the incomprehensible depths of despair and loneliness and rage ]  #[ he has the POWER to lash out at the world ]  #[ and that's part of the difference here ]  #cas shut up