When he met his distant relative Bellatrix Lestrange, he knew he had finally come home. They understood right from wrong, and had the conviction to fix the world. Only The Dark Lord, with his attempts to defeat death in order to escape the prophecy that said he had to die, seemed to be the right side in this conflict. He pitied his mother and brothers for getting duped into Albus Dumbledore's clutches, being lured into the sodomite's vision for destroying society.