Questions.

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No: HPFGUIDX 73653

--- 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.
> 

Me:
Sorry, but no.  In GoF it is explicitly stated that Tom Riddle Sr 
(Voldemort's dad) is living in the Riddle house with his parents.  
These are the three who were killed by Tom Riddle Jr.  Voldemort's 
mother died in childbirth sixteen years previous (see CoS).


> 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.
> 

Me:
Go Figure Snape.  Maybe he did.  I had a feeling that he suspected 
Quirell but didn't know he was Quirrelmort.

> 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. 

Me:
A portkey basically works like a camera.  The one that Harry and crew 
took to the Quiddich cup was basically on a timer so a lot of people 
could grab it at the same time.  The one Crouch!Moody made was set to 
go off when it was touched, because he only wanted one person to grab 
it.  He didn't count on Harry and Cedric grabbing it at the same 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.

Me:
Crouch!Moody was making a concerned effort to act suspicious.  It 
would have been pretty weird if he snuck up to Gryffindor tower to 
the boys' dorms (*cough*).  Also, Voldemort's return was going to be 
completely secret, the plan was for Harry to simply disappear at the 
end of the tournament and never come back to tell the story (OoP).  
Think for a minute if Mr. V had killed Harry at the cemetery:  
Everyone at the third task would be wondering where the heck he'd 
gone and Crouch!Moody would have been blameless.

--Ashley--