I love this interpretation, and I think you're probably right.
And on a darker level too, I think he had to understand it to do some of the things he did to other people. What good would threatening other people's families have been, in his perspective, if love wasn't powerful? Although I guess you could argue he simply felt people would want to protect their sense of "belonging." In any case, I think he understood love, he just... well, what you said.
(I mean, there's also the fact that a lot of his followers don't seem to have had a lot of love otherwise, which to me suggests he took them in purposely. Even Bellatrix and Regulus were from a horrible family - I can't imagine what it would've been like being Baby Bellatrix and Baby Regulus. Not that I think Voldemort bought them toys and sung them to sleep, but he knew how to recruit lonelier people.)
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And on a darker level too, I think he had to understand it to do some of the things he did to other people. What good would threatening other people's families have been, in his perspective, if love wasn't powerful? Although I guess you could argue he simply felt people would want to protect their sense of "belonging." In any case, I think he understood love, he just... well, what you said.
(I mean, there's also the fact that a lot of his followers don't seem to have had a lot of love otherwise, which to me suggests he took them in purposely. Even Bellatrix and Regulus were from a horrible family - I can't imagine what it would've been like being Baby Bellatrix and Baby Regulus. Not that I think Voldemort bought them toys and sung them to sleep, but he knew how to recruit lonelier people.)