I agree with you about the character business. If every child who was deprived of love and mistreated turned out to be an evil overlord-wannabe in real life, we'd be swimming in them. There are examples of people in our society who have been horribly abused and neglected, yet have grown to become 'morally decent' people.

And I also agree with you about Slytheirn. Harry chose differently because of the paths he'd heard Slytherin could take him, from people he trusts. I wouldn't have chosen Slytherin in Harry's situation - even if purely because I now had people who cared about me, and didn't want to see me go there.

If Tom Riddle were a sociopath, then the whole thing with Harry seeing doomed-baby-Voldemort who is beyond help, is rather sick.

Sam//Slytherin