How Did Harry Potter Reverse What Voldemort Did to Himself?
To avoid vulnerability, Voldemort split his soul into several pieces and hid those parts that made him weak. It was soul rupture.
Voldemort was obsessed with invulnerability. He couldn’t afford being vulnerable. It came from his family — he was abandoned by his father and mother. His father left and his mother died soon after.
Paradoxically, when a child is rejected emotionally or physically in their early years, they will often recreate the same pattern of self-rejection in adult…
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