The pained look on his mother's face showed Harry that she wanted everything but her son to become a cold-blooded killer but ... but she would understand. In the end, everything was better than to keep Harry a pawn between two powerful wizards who didn't care about him! These were his parents, and their love was unconditional. "He never knew that," Lily whispered as if reading Harry's mind. "He never knew love because he was conceived without it. Tom was raised in an orphanage where they thought him possessed ... a freak (a deliberate choice of word). They hurt him and looked down at him. And after the first Horcrux, pain became his sole companion. Your dad is right, baby. Either find his Horcrux and help him patch up his soul or kill him. In the end, it would be a mercy."