[HPforGrownups] Re: hehehe / The Fidelius Charm

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47744

psychic_serpent at yahoo.com writes:
<<Um, actually there are a number of things wrong with this theory>>
<snip>
<< You mentioned that he was a Squib, but you seemed to forget about it after 
that.  Filch is a Squib.  If Voldemort's father was a Squib, he'd call him 
that.  Not a Muggle.  And the real reason, in canon, that Filch cannot be his 
father is that he ISN'T DEAD.  Voldemort needed the "bone of the father" for 
the potion/spell/ritual that gave him his body back.  That came from the 
grave of Tom Riddle. >>

I think you missed something, Barb.  Julie's theory presumed that Voldemort 
doesn't *know* Filch is his father.  He thinks Tom Riddle is.  So your first 
point has no bearing on Julie's theory.  Your second point is a little more 
viable.  Would the ritual have worked at all if he used the bone of someone 
other than his father?  We don't know. Julie supposed the ritual would work, 
but be flawed somehow, and there is really nothing to prove her wrong. 

Audra