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WCDT: 2281-85 (24-28 September 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
DrBear:
I was told there would be no math.
celticgeek:
We all use math every day.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: DrBear on 29 Sep 2012, 07:49 ---I was told there would be no math.
--- End quote ---
No math is a lie.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Sep 2012, 07:48 --- But the books make him so much more than human that it doesn't really work, at least not without canon backing it up.
--- End quote ---
I wouldn't have used "more" there; personally, I'd substitute less. Dude leaves a fifteen-month old child on a doorstep in November, with only a note for company and the approbations of his companion ringing in his ear, then never bothers to check on the child's welfare for ten years? Even if the dursleys had been saints that makes him, minimum, guilty of criminal neglect, assuming he was legally entitled to 'care' for the child in the first place. Add to it that his hand picked carers are monsters, and that he was told this by the person he assigned to watch them and that makes him a monster by proxy.
And that's what, the first chapter of the first book?
Not that he gets better with age, since it seems clear that his ultimate plan required the child to commit suicide, leaving a suitably paranoid person suspicious that he deliberately set the child up to be abused in order to make death a 'soft' option by comparison, and the fact that this didn't actually kill the child permanently is basically a combination of extreme luck and not a little deus ex machina.
Carl-E:
It's still a ripping good yarn.
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