I don't really care to get into it about Snape. You've your beliefs and I have mine. I just think Rowling is capable of bad writing and she's shown that off before.

I'm not expecting Rowling to humanize Riddle. She's gone through six books trying to dehumanize him and unless she does a complete 180, I have no hope for that.

There was no proof whatsoever that Harry's parents didn't love him that Harry could see. His parents died in a car crash. They didn't just abandon him. They clearly wanted him, else they would have likely tossed him to the Dursleys as soon as they had him or put him up elsewhere. At least Harry had that much to go on. Riddle had considerably less.

You say you disagree with me when I said that Harry knew his parents loved him. Then you say that he did know it because they actually did love him. I assume you're disagreeing with me just because the Dursleys never told Potter that his parents loved him. Is this correct?

I never said that lack of love and the failure to bond doesn't cause damage. Not actual physical brain damage, which is what I was talking about before, but more emotional damage.

I have never seen a case study that portrayed anyone who was unloved having an actually damaged brain. Lack of love happens by chance, not by choice from the person. My main thing was that he suffered an actual head injury, physical, that resulted in a bit of damage that wasn't traceable. Not crippling emotional damage.

For the record, I don't think evil!Snape = bad writing but to each their own.