Dads - Percy & Riddle - Valentine

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 15176

a. wrote:

>How many wizarding families (or Muggle families) have we even met?  
>Harry only knows about his own and his friends' families - we have no 
>way of knowing weather Dean Thomas or the Patils, for example, are 
>raised by single or stay-at-home Dads.

I think the Creeveys' dad is likely a single dad (message 8942).  No 
evidence, but the way Colin refers to him suggests it.

Milz wrote:

>I agree there is a bit of interesting Percy foreshadowing in the 
>books. It puzzled me why in CoS Percy didn't know Voldemort was Tom 
>Riddle. He was reading a book about Hogwarts Prefects who went onto 
>powerful positions, unless that book wiped out all reference to Tom 
>Riddle. 

Dumbledore says at the end of CoS that few people connect Voldemort 
with Riddle, so presumably it isn't in any books, including the 
best-selling thriller _Prefects Who Gained Power_.  To most people, TR 
is just a name on an old trophy, along with hundreds of others in the 
Hogwarts collection.  I wonder whether we will ever learn why so few 
people know TR=LV, or any more about it.  

But anyway, no one knows about Tom Riddle before the end of CoS except 
Ginny and Harry from reading the diary, Ron because Harry told him 
what he learned from it, and presumably Hermione because he would have 
told her too.  Afterwards, sure, the rest of the Weasleys probably got 
the story.

Amanda wrote:

>There are those of us out here who still don't think Ginny sent
>the Valentine. I think Lockhart arranged for all of them, down to who
>got them and the smarmy poetry. 

I think Draco sent it, personally.  He got to humiliate Harry and a 
Weasley in one fell swoop, plus it gave vent to his sublimated (or do 
I mean repressed?--unknown even to himself) feelings for Harry.  <g>

Amy Z
DM/HP forever!  (In fanfic, that is.  In canon, it would make me 
retch)

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