[HPFGU-Movie] MOVIE SPOILER - Tom Riddle

[Amanda Geist]

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> I saw the movie yesterday, and there's one thing that's really
> bugging me - Tom Riddle's robes. I re-read CoS last year just after
> seeing the first movie, and was thinking of how it would look on film
> the whole time I was reading it. What occurred to me was that in the
> diary scenes we would see Tom Riddle/Voldemort at school, and would
> then have definitive information on what house he was in, from the
> crest on his robes. So I was taking particular notice of his robes in
> those scenes. Now, as we know, Riddle was a Slytherin - Hagrid told
> us so. So, in that case, why does Riddle have on his robes not a
> Slytherin crest at all, but the Hogwarts crest like the first years
> have before they're sorted? Not only that, but he was wearing what my
> sister insists is a Ravenclaw jumper - with a blue stripe round the
> neck.

L.O.O.N. on deck. Technically, canon does not provide an iron-clad link that
Tom Riddle was in Slytherin. This is frustrating but true. Hagrid says that
You-Know-Who was from Slytherin (I think this is correct; the point is, it
is *Voldemort* and *not* Tom Riddle identified as being Slytherin).
Dumbledore later says that not very many people know that Tom Riddle became
Voldemort. Given that Hagrid is not a 100% reliable source, the tiny
breakdown of knowledge (*did* Hagrid know it was Tom Riddle who became
Voldemort?) cannot be bridged except by a logical guess. It's not
canonically certain. Yet. So Riddle could have defensibly worn any of the
House robes without violating canon.

~Amanda