Voldemort at Hogwarts

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 60576

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "animagikat" <mangankat at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tamara" <buffyeton at y...> wrote:
> > How could a piece of info like the fact that Voldemort was once a 
> > Hogwarts student not be common knowledge in the wizarding world?  
> The 
> > Weasley parents seemed shocked to find this out.
> 
> Animagikat
> I also wondered this same point, and through much discussion, here is 
> what I've decided.
> IMO, it must not be common knowledge as to the true identity of LV, 
> even to the more educated people. In ss/ps Dumbledore refers to 
> Voldemort as being his proper name, not Tom Riddle. This is while 
> he's talking to Pro. McG., who is indeed educated. 
> 
> If Pro. McG, who is in close communication with Dumbledore, doesn't 
> know, who else would?
> 


First, Voldemort himself would want to "forget" his identity of Tom M.
Riddle -- he was named after his despised Muggle father, after all. If
he had any supporters from his school days, they might be sympathetic
 to this wish. Second, he disappeared after school and was barely
recognisable when he returned to public knowledge in the
sixties/seventies -- in a way you might argue that he wasn't the same
person any longer (at least psychologically).

What I want to know, actually, is How did Dumbledore know? Was he
keeping an eye on Riddle for thirtysomething years, in case he might
be trouble later? Or did one of his spies alert him to it? If the
latter is true he's just protecting his source, if the former I don't
see why he didn't make this piece of knowledge public.

Alshain