Voldemort and Riddle

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 2938

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> Joywitch wrote:
> 
> > Dumbledore doesnt go around telling anyone is because of his
> > experience, noted several times in the book, that it can be very,
> > very difficult to get people to listen to and understand the 
truth.
> > He probably figures that no one would believe him, or if they did,
> > Rita Skeeter would write try to make a scandal out of it.  I can 
see
> > the article in the Daily Prophet:
> >
> > *You-know-who learned all he knows at Hogwarts*
> >
> > Are our children being taught by the same teachers who taught the
> > greatest evil wizard of all times?  Is your little witch 
listening to
> > the same History of Magic lectures as Voldemort?  Hogwarts
> > Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, could not deny that the evil one was
> > once a Hogwarts student, but denies responsibility for his
> > training.......
> 
> Good point:  Again, for the upteenth time, I refer people to one of 
my
> favorite critical articles about the HP books, the one by Alan 
Jacobs at
> 
> http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0001/reviews/jacobs.html
> 
> which includes the remark:
> 
> The educational quandary for Albus Dumbledore, then—though it
is 
never
> described so overtly—is how to train students not just in the
> "technology" of magic but also in the moral discernment necessary to
> avoid the continual reproduction of the few great Dark Lords like
> Voldemort and their multitudinous followers.
> 
> The fact that Voldemort was trained at Hogwarts is probably 
something
> they leave out of the alumni (oops, we had that discussion 
already), no,
> the former student fundraising/promotional brochures.
> 
> Peg


Fascinating article, particularly the points about mythopoeia