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Prompt #3 - What are your thoughts on love? [Open]
I've been told many things about love. That it's more powerful than anything I have known personally, that was from Albus Dumbledore of course. I've also been told that love is useless unless you stand to gain from it. I tend to fall in the second camp.

I will be honest and say that I don't think I've ever truly experienced what this love thing is, but it seems to be a pretty pathetic thing when it just seems to override one's sense of self-preservation. You know, when people claim that they'd die for another. I don't think I could ever die for another because I treasure myself too much. I am too selfish to love and perhaps that is a good thing.

However, it would be foolish of me not to believe that love and self-sacrifice does have power. After all, that is what caused me to lose my body when I tried to kill Harry Potter. His muggleborn mother sacrificed himself for him (I told her that she need not lose her life, but mothers are complicated things) and her love and self-sacrifice...well, let's just say that brat seems to have had far too much luck since then.

So I know it exists, but it is not the most powerful thing in the world. Or so I would like to think.

Still, I would rather live than die for someone else.

...Privately, I sometimes wonder what it would be liked to be loved by another. I fear that someone will get too close and I'll fall to the weakness that is love as well. As an orphan, as Tom Riddle, I occasionally became jealous of people who had parents who loved them dearly and hated them. I hate families because I never had one. I hate love because no one would ever love me because I'm just a worthless orphan. So I take great pleasure in destroying the families of others for if I could never have one, they should not have one either.

This includes the families of my own followers.