Plotwise, I’ve been wondering lately if Eliezer might be laying the groundwork for Voldemort to turn out to actually be the good guy and maybe Harry’s true challenge as a protagonist will be to recognize that rationalist!Voldemort will actually turn out to be good for the world, and deserves to be supported.
(There are some traces of that story in MoR—Harry early on not engaging in moral relativism is similar to the hero’s final understanding of the evil of the status quo of the fantasy world. But ultimately I think Quirrelmort will be evil. Voldemort killing the entire dojo and sparing only his friend is a mortal sin and Quirrel does not exhibit the kind of heroic remorse necessary to make up for mass & serial murder. Which reminds me, we don’t know who Voldemort killed to get the Horcrux on Pioneer. A security guard, probably.)
This is how one of Eliezer’s early stories turned out: “The Sword of Good”.
(There are some traces of that story in MoR—Harry early on not engaging in moral relativism is similar to the hero’s final understanding of the evil of the status quo of the fantasy world. But ultimately I think Quirrelmort will be evil. Voldemort killing the entire dojo and sparing only his friend is a mortal sin and Quirrel does not exhibit the kind of heroic remorse necessary to make up for mass & serial murder. Which reminds me, we don’t know who Voldemort killed to get the Horcrux on Pioneer. A security guard, probably.)