#readingharrypotter

So first, his mother’s family is absolutely crazy. I can’t believe I had never thought about how they might be a little mentally messed up from being pureblood supremacists and the inbreeding to keep bloodlines pure thing. Absolutely crazy people...

But wow, his mother was kind of a squib, but not really, but basically lost her magical abilities? And then they even hate the dude from the Ministry of Magic. They’re officially insane. All they care about are their heirlooms, which makes the horcruxes and actually going into those memories make sense! I never understood how they somehow knew which objects to look for, but going through his past in this depth made everything so clear.

Why did they show he liked to steal as a kid? To show that treasures (especially those he took from others) were very important to him, which is why the horcruxes weren’t random, untraceable, un-suspectable objects. How did he somehow get a hold of something from three of the four Hogwarts founders? Because he went to work at Borgin and Burks after school and specifically searched them out, especially after finding out he’s a descendant of Slytherin. Why does he hate muggles so much? He found out his muggle father was alive and abandoned him, so he found Voldy him and killed him.

While they clearly couldn’t put all of his backstory into the movie without it being ridiculously long, I’m so fascinated with how he became what he was. Everything he does seems to make way more sense, senseless though his actions were. At least there were motives for using treasures as horcruxes, and  for hating and killing muggles. It always bothered me that it never seemed like he had a motive for being the person he was, aside from maybe a childhood in an orphanage.