Hagrid & Tom Riddle

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No: HPFGUIDX 36783

ladjables wrote:

> From their ages we know McGonagall, Hagrid and Tom Riddle were all 
at 
> school together (not necessarily the same class though) but could 
> Trelawney also have been a contemporary?  Could she have made her 
> first real prediction as a teenager, and the Transfiguration 
teacher 
> Dumbledore got wind of it?   Which was why he observed Tom so 
closely 
> and why he later had another Fawkes wand created? 

Your post got me thinking-- does Hagrid now realize that Tom Riddle 
is Voldemort?  If so, does he harbor even more deeply hateful 
feelings toward Voldemort that he doesn't speak of?  
After all, it was due to Tom Riddle that Hagrid was kicked out and 
never finished his wizarding education.  If he doesn't realize who 
Tom Riddle became, why not?  Was this information witheld from him?  
Dumbledore says not many people know that Voldemort was once known as 
Tom Riddle.  Just a thought.

However, I don't necessarily think that Dumbledore would have found a 
teenage Trelawney a very reliable sorce of information.  I imagine 
she was a thousand times more fake than she is now.  If she had made 
any kind of prediction, I doubt anyone would have paid attention, or 
believed her.  I wonder if Dumbledore gave Ollivanders Fawkes' 
feather after Harry survived the attack, thinking that Harry would be 
"attracted" to it when he went to purchase one. I also wonder if 
Trelawney's prediction isn't directly tied to Harry at all.  
Dumbledore is the one who "mentions" that the trance Harry sees is 
Trelawney's second prediction, and if the first somehow predicted 
Harry's confrontation with Voldemort that killed his parents, it 
would seem (to me) a bit insensitive of him to hint this to Harry in 
light conversation.