[HPforGrownups] Who is Riddle to Harry?

[Jonathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 45621

In response to the question at the end of this message, I believe that
Riddle told Harry, just after re-arranging the letters of his name to become
'I Am Lord Voldemort' that his friends had begun calling him that even while
he was at school, I think the direct passage is on page 231, about halfway
down the page and just after we have the indented 'I Am Lord Voldemort';

"You see?" he whispered. "It was a name I was already using at Hogwarts, to
my intimate friends only, of course."

to Quote the message this one is in response to,

<< It would seem that Harry did have some kind of relationship with Tom
Riddle before losing his parents. >>

When I first read it (CoS) I thought that it was someone he had known, when
he was young, perhaps another boy. I'm not sure if it's possible that Harry
got to know Tom Riddle after he banished his soul, or whatever he did, until
he got the diary in CoS. And, if my memory serves me correctly, the entire
Riddle family was destroyed, and that there was no one left behind except
the Gardener, Frank.

I'm now on a blank as to how Riddle could seem so familiar to Harry...

-Jonathan (putting in his eight knuts, three sickles and a galleon. Also
wondering the answer to the question, 'Why is Riddle so familiar to Harry?')