Tom Riddle; or, What did Ollivander know?
jsmgleaner
jsmgleaner at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 29 00:41:12 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 73777
I've caught myself thinking recently about the order of events from SS/PS to
CoS concerning Ollivander and the wands he sells. In SS/PS, Ollivander tells
Harry that he sold the wand that gave Harry the scar. And in CoS,
Dumbledore says that very few people knew that Voldemort had once been a
Hogwarts student named Tom Riddle.
Here are some of my questions for the group (with the obligatory apologies if
this has been done to death; I just couldn't find it in the archives):
Did Ollivander sell the wand to Tom Riddle or to Lord Voldemort after Riddle
went through his vaguely described transformation? I know they're the same
person in theory, but Rowling goes to great lengths to point to the fact that in
many ways they are two different incarnations of that person. What would it
mean if this wand was bought by Voldemort not Riddle? Or, conversely, what
does it tell us about Ollivander if he knew Tom Riddle was Voldemort? And
how does his soliciting Dumbledore for phoenix feathers fit into this?
Any thoughts?
-- jsmgleaner (who doubts Ollivander's "An Evil Lord"; after all, how many
times can Rowling get away with the anagram trick? how many Dark Lords
can there be in one series?)
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