[HPforGrownups] Voldemort a Gryffindor?

[Heather Gauen]

No: HPFGUIDX 40350

Hi everyone! *waves nervously and hopes her first post
makes some degree of sense*

Talia wrote:
"I suppose people assume that the Dark Lord was in
Slytherin because of what Ron said...Ron says
something to the effect of 'There wasn't a witch or
wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin.'"

I write:
Hagrid is the one who actually says the quote,
"There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who
wasn't in Slytherin," and then adds, "You-Know Who was
one." (p 80, SS) Later, on the train, Ron is trashing
on Slytherin and also says something to the effect of
Slytherin turning out more dark wizards than any
other, and he confirms what Hagrid said about
Voldemort being in Slytherin.

Talia wrote:
"Did Ron not know anything about Sirius Black?"

I write:
I'm assuming that neither Hagrid nor Ron thought to
add, "Oh, yeah, except for one Gryffindor who went
REALLY bad," since both conversations were centered on
why Harry didn't want to be in Slytherin. Ron probably
knew about Black, since he knew about him in GoF, and
Hagrid certainly knows about him-- it just didn't seem
important to add at the time.

Both Hagrid and Ron mentioning Voldemort being in
Slytherin raises an interesting question. Ron doesn't
know about Tom Riddle (most likely), so we do not know
if his statement is assumption or something he knows
for sure. But as for Hagrid-- does he know that Tom
Riddle and Voldemort are one and the same? Riddle and
Hagrid did go to school together, and Riddle was the
one who got Hagrid expelled. Surely Hagrid, then,
would know what house Riddle had been in. If he knows
that Tom Riddle is Voldemort (and I think he does,
given his connection to Dumbledore), then there you
have it. Hagrid has no reason to lie about which house
Voldemort was in (at least not one we know about yet).

Heather, who hopes that the next book doesn't
completely disprove her theory that Voldemort had to
have been a Slytherin






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