Character Sketch: Lord Voldemort
ourobouros_1999 at yahoo.com
ourobouros_1999 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 7 02:18:35 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 13757
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Snuffles MacGoo" <msmacgoo at o...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., ourobouros_1999 at y... wrote:
> Great Post Amy!
Agreed. :)
<snip>
> > How many people know of his true identity as Tom Marvolo Riddle?
> > Isn't it odd that no one, after his defeat, would write about it
or
> > discuss where Lord V came from? Certainly wizards just don't pop
> out > of nowhere.
>
<snip>
>
> If Wizard society is anything like Japanese society in this respect
> (and if Fudge is at all representive it may well be) then it is
> entierly possible they suffer a similar cultural amnesia about
> otherwise well documented events.
>
I think this could be even extended to US society on certain matters,
or all societies that have done something they currently aren't proud
of. But this is an imperfect analogy. Wizarding society and
government was against Voldemort, and doesn't regard itself as
culpable for his actions. The examples you cited were of past state
activities, and the guilt societies feel or avoid feeling over what
their governments did in the past. Voldemort is roundly condemned by
most wizards, at least in public, and did not become, if I read the
books correctly, the controller of public opinion/ideology. So I see
him as more of a rebel/conspirator figure than a head of state.
What I was trying to get at there was that a)everyone knows Lord V
went to Hogwarts. b)There is no Lord V in the school records, only
Tom Riddle c)Why should Dumbledore/those in the know keep quiet about
his true identity?
Charmian
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