[HPforGrownups] Re: Who knows Tom Riddle is Voldemort?

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 55495

Phyllis writes: 


> In the Chamber (Ch. 17), Riddle tells Harry "It [Voldemort] was a 
> name I was already using at Hogwarts, to my most intimate friends 
> only, of course."  One of those "intimate" friends must be Lucius 
> Malfoy, since he possessed the diary with Tom Riddle's name written 
> in it.  Crouch Jr. knows, as he tells Harry in Ch. 35 of GoF: "Both 
> of us suffered the indignity of being named after those fathers."  
> Wormtail also knows, because Voldemort tells Harry and Wormtail in 
> the graveyard (before the other DEs appear): "I revenged myself upon 
> him, that fool who gave me his name...Tom Riddle" (GoF, Ch. 33).  Who 
> the other "intimate friends" are, we don't know, but at least some of 
> them are probably DEs who were at Hogwarts with Riddle.  

I have to disagree with this a bit-mainly due to a difference in age. Most if 
not all of the DE's weren't at Hogwarts when Voldemort/Riddle was 
there...they were there during Snape's time. And, though I can't find any 
canon at the moment, I suspect that Lucius is included in that.  

As for Crouch JR...in "the pensieve" (GOF, ch 30 it says that he is in his 
late teens (hard back, 594). So he wasn't even born when LV was in school.  

Of course, there are probably ooddles of as-of-yet unnamed persons who 
are/were those 'intimate friends' ^^ 

~Cassie~ 


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