The Persistence of Memory

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 52945

I am beginning ot wonder myself, about that clue which was brought up 
regarding CoS -- of Harry finding the name Riddle to be familiar.

Might we have just been handed a hint of one of the reasons why Voldemort was 
originally after the Potters?

After all, "Tom Riddle" dropped off the face of the earth after allegedly 
killing his father and grandparents. There is no statute of limitations on 
murder. It is pretty clear that some, but possibly not all people within 
Dumbledore's organization know about Voldemort's origins, and it begins to 
sound like the Potters were some of the ones who did. 

One thing to remember is that Voldemort's rise is not necessarily a direct 
continuation of the methods he used in VoldWar I. This is a whole new 
assault, and may very well take a whole other approach from what was used 
before. For one thing, I suspect that killing Harry Potter, however 
desirable, may no longer be considered as "necessary" to his game plan, or he 
would probably not have taken so leisurly an approach to it in the graveyard. 
We may have been witnesses, with Harry, to a decided shift in Voldemort's 
methodology. It is quite possible that his speech in the graveyard was the 
first time that LV "came clean" regarding part of his own background to more 
than one or two of his most trusted deputies. Information which was 
"sensitive" the first time round may no longer be.

-JOdel