MOVIE SPOILER - Tom Riddle

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Carrie Williams" <carrie.williams66 at n...> 
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> I saw the movie yesterday, and there's one thing that's really 
> bugging me - Tom Riddle's robes. <Snip>

> 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.
 
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> I have a couple of theories:
> 1 (the paranoid one): they are hiding something from us! Riddle 
may 
> turn out not to have been a Slytherin at all.
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> 2: Riddle created the images he showed Harry in the diary, and he 
> simply replaced the Slytherin crest on his robes with the Hogwarts 
> one because he knew Harry wouldn't trust a Slytherin.
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> Any other theories on this will be gratefully received - the more 
> outlandish the better!
> 
> Carrie1138, 

I'd go for theory 1. myself. They've changed the uniform for 50 
years ago so it's NOT obvious what house Riddle was in. 

Moaning Myrtle seemed to have the same 'Hogwarts' crest on her 
ghostly cloak as well (it was a bit difficult to tell, but I 
remember thinking 'that doesn't look like the Slytherin crest', so 
theory 2. is probably unlikely. 

It's a quite deliberate change, and the only reason I can think of 
is that they want to keep it quiet which house Riddle was in. And 
the only reason for that I can think of is that, actually, we don't 
know what House Voldemort comes from at all.

Perhaps we're going to find out he was a Gryffindor?

Pip
[making a rare foray onto the movie list]