[HPforGrownups] The Talented Mr. Riddle

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 2951


> Good point (and your last line made me laugh).  Well, Tom Riddle had come
up
> with his nome de evil at Hogwarts, although I don't think he told anyone
the
> name while he was there.  I don't think he did much to establish an adult
> identity as Tom Riddle.  Think about it: no credit rating.  Probably no
record
> of marriage or owning a home.  As far as his victims knew, he arrived on
the
> scene, fully blown, as Lord Voldemort.  Not much for newspaper reporters
(or
> historians) to go on) if he kept the two identities separate and switched
from
> one to the other upon graduation (particularly if he laid mostly low for
several
> years in between--perhaps off in Transylvania comparing notes with the
> vampires?)

Or maybe very few people knew that Voldy was Tom Riddle, because Tom Riddle
was dead.  I wouldn't put it past Voldemort to fake his own death and leave
Tom Riddle behind him for good, before fleeing somewhere very remote to
study the Dark Arts.

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