Voldemort is Raskolnikov?

February 27th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Hogwarts School of Literature

An Orthodox lecturer is arguing that Rowling’s Voldemort is the full realization of Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment. That seems a big stretch to me; there’s a ton of human left in Raskolnikov all through the book, in my opinion.
I made a very generalized thematic link between Crime and Punishment and Harry Potter [...]

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