Actually, Tom Riddle IS evil, before he went to Hogwarts he started using his magic to control, steal things, basically terrorizing other kids that were in the orphanage with him for god's sake. He researched the Chamber of Secrets for 5 years before he realeased it...
tl:dr - Tom Riddle was one fucked up evil kid.
And molesting him to wake him up? What. The. Fuck?
Author's response
Thanks for reading and reviewing. Oh and thanks for not using the kid gloves. I’ve always maintained that if I only wanted to see positive reviews then I’d host my own site and edit out the less than positive ones (like some “authors” I could name).
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has at least one and they usually stink.
Tom Riddle is Evil, OK, JKR obviously agrees with you, he’s an evil, evil child; we could have a whole series on whether children are capable of true malevolence or benevolence, or are the products of their environments.
Ever see a child do something spiteful or petty?
Did that make them evil?
Using that argument Harry should be a right bastard as well.
Except, he isn’t.
It’s all about choices, innit?
I choose a better path for Tommy.
I missed the part in canon where Riddle researched the Chamber for five years, but that doesn’t change the Sarcophagus Tommy in my story.
Oh, and while his body is fifteen, he’s actually been attending classes in his mind for about 55 years, so he’s actually closer to seventy years old.
Maybe he relives the same day over and over, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day – and maybe he earns redemption the same way, Bill did.
I say give the kid a break.
Oh wait, it’s my story.
The kid gets a break.
You want to make Tommy evil?
Go ahead.
Just not going to happen in my story.
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