Questions.

[magicroxx]

No: HPFGUIDX 73645

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chopsy2001" <chopsy2001 at y...> 
wrote:
> Just a couple of quick questions I'd like you to consider and show 
me 
> where I'm going wrong.
> 
> 1) In the first chapter of GoF we learn that Tom Riddle killed his 
> parents and yet there were actually 3 Riddles who had died "who all 
> looked as though they had been frightened to death". Well who is 
the 
> third Riddle that was killed. The young one seems so much as if it 
> was Tom himself. The only thing I ever came up with was that Tom 
was 
> faking his death.
> 
> 2) In PS/SS Snape knows most of the time what Quirrel is up to. Yet 
> why does he not tell Dumbledore? Surely that would be the most 
> sensible thing to do? Instead of trying to solve it himself.
> 
> 3) In GoF Harry uses the portkey to get back to hogwarts. And yet 
> shouldn't this be used only at a PRE-DESTINED time. Also why didn't 
> Crouch/Moody simply transfer Harry's pillow into a portkey instead 
of 
> going through the rigmarole of setting up the triwizard tournament.
> 
> More later...
> 
> Will.


Good questions Will!!

1) I thought that Tom Riddle's father was the youngest member of the 
family that was murdered, SO Tom Riddle killed his father and 
grandparents.

2) I have often thought that, and maybe he did. Dumbledore knew 
something was up at the school, because he came back mid-flight to 
the ministry. Maybe Snape suspected that Quirrel was in league with 
Voldemort and didn't want to seem like a complete traitor, so that 
word didn't get back to Voldemort that he was close friends with 
Dumbledore. 

let's not forget that JK said that we musn't get too fond of Severus, 
that we are right to be suspecting him.

3) I often thought that about Moody/Crouch. It does seem very complex 
for something so simple. Maybe he couldn't get into the Gryffindor 
tower, the only teacher that we have ever see in there is McGonagall. 
Any other portkey would have been too risky that someone else may 
have touched it. Also, the story wouldn't have worked out so well.

Hope that helps

Roxx