Slytherin descendants and logic puzzles

[Firebolt]

No: HPFGUIDX 2429

Question: We know that Dumbledore says that Voldemort is the last descendant of Slytherin (I'm putting aside the ancestor/descendant debate for now). So, if Harry was Voldemort's direct descendant from either side, Dumbledore would know, seeing as he's probably done a lot of Vodie-research. But Voldemort isn't an idiot either...how do we know he hasn't destroyed all legal records of himself? It would make it harder for people other than his supporters to find out that he was Tom Riddle and get information on him, and would also be a convienient way to kill two birds with one stone if, say, he had a child who he wasn't proud of (i.e. someone who didn't follow his ideals - sort of embarrassing if you want to take over the world and can't keep hold of your own child).

<Actually, no. My nearest and dearest pretty unanimously consider me logically challenged. I'm never good at them and my brain freezes up--for instance, I
experienced MEGO in book 1 when Harry and Hermione got to Snape's barrier, with all the potions. [MEGO = My Eyes Glaze Over]. This was a fluke. I guess because
JKR wasn't trying to conceal anything, so it wasn't hard.>

You couldn't have worked it out without seeing the bottles, anyway. Some of the clues are size/shape based, and since we don't have a bottle-by-bottle description...

~Firebolt



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