[HPforGrownups] Why "Lord"?

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In a message dated 1/10/02 10:37:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
faubert at optonline.net writes:

<< We don't know what happened during the years he was in power.  He could 
have taken over the minsitry of magic and had himself called Lord.  Or he 
could really be a lord.  He is from a muggle family but maybe that family has 
a title.
 
 George >>

IIRC, isn't Lord Voldemort a pseudonym Tom Riddle came up with himself when 
he was young? (He was already using it when he made the diary back in his 
Hogwarts days.) In which case it probably wasn't a legitimate title. My guess 
is people probably used it out of fear, or because that was how he and his 
followers referred to him and it stuck. 

Tracy