Why the Dark Lord? Why, among the many characters created by J.K. Rowling, have we chosen Tom Riddle? Simple, we love him. Every of us catch a different shade of him, a hidden facet and we try to communicate it to who surrounds us: there is who sees a cruel wizard and there is who sees a tormented man. Inside him, man and wizard face each other and fight, even if the latter seems to win. But is it so? We don't know much about him, little about his infancy and boyhood, much about his rise and decline. But he is described through his enemies' eyes, barring us the chance to investigate in the wizard's obscurity to search the man: a character, to my personal judgment, with a potential and a psychological thickness that goes beyond the "cruel, evil and feared You-Know-Who" and that's why he doesn't get the interest he deserves.
Even human feelings have different shades, and surely love isn't an exception. Often we call love one of its shades. but there is a love pure with innocence and the sick one that finds satisfaction in the destruction of the object, the devotion and even if it is said that love is blind, with its help we can see what the others don't. there is even the love of a mother, whishing every blessing and ready to every sacrifice. the filial love, spontaneous and naïve.
At first, the words Voldemort and Love would sound like an oxymoron, but it isn't so and this is our project's purpose: compare man and wizard with this feeling and try to understand in which way and in which measure love has influenced his life. because this will also be a journey through time, from the first instants to before the final battle.
Why love or not-love the Dark Lord? We'll answer this question with the tales you are about to read and we'll try to be convincing, hoping to teach you to love him.
To Mrs. Black, our Founder, with the wish to find her deserved happiness.