where his civilizations, including our own

Voldemort in Godric's Hollow in book 7, remembering what happened when he looked into the face of a baby, wanted to watch, saw the baby cry, saw that the baby now felt the same way Tom Riddle felt as an infant when there was nobody for him, realized *he* had done that to the baby and made someone into a baby like he was himself, and then felt pain beyond pain because "he had killed the boy, and yet he *was* the boy." That was empathy and guilt and remorse. It was so painful that it would have killed him except that he had made horcruxes, so he was damned to live without a body in the forest for years, neither dead nor alive. He tried to possess other animals to regain a body, even getting Wormtail to obtain a rudimentary body for him, but he realized that he could only depend on Harry's blood to reinstate a body that could *grow* because he knew for sure that Harry had received love (oxytocin) and that is the element that makes the difference between abandoned infants thriving (as Harry did) and suffering without relief (as infant Tom Riddle did). Stark stuff. Really stark. So glad JKR works with orphanages to get kids into better situations where they get more human interaction.