Tom may well have been beyond help, but that doesn't absolve Dumbledore from not even trying. I'm afraid that the scene at the orphanage was Rowling's idea of trying. If one think that Tom was segregated in a room and persuaded that he was to be packed off to an asylum...
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Date: 2006-04-12 05:09 pm (UTC)I'm afraid that the scene at the orphanage was Rowling's idea of trying.
If one think that Tom was segregated in a room and persuaded that he was to be packed off to an asylum...