T Riddle Wanted for Murder? (was:Re: Digest Number 2752)

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 56884

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jodel at a... wrote:
> Cheryl the Lynx states;
> 
> >Actually I think "Tom Riddle" wasn't wanted. There seems to be no 
> >indication 
> >that anyone in the village believed Frank Brice when he said he'd 
> >seen a 
> >strange boy, [...snip...]
> 
> *sigh*
> Well of course he wasn't wanted for questioning by the *Muggle* 
authorities. 
> 
> Do you honestly think that you can let off three AKs in a Muggle 
villiage and 
> the MoM won't get involved? <snip> Tom Riddle didn't disapear for 
their sake. 
He was 
> hiding from the *wizarding* authorities.
> 
> -JOdel
> 
Annemehr:

Well, I *don't* think Riddle felt any need to hide from the MoM!

>From GoF, ch. 30 (The Pensieve):

"The years of Voldemort's ascent to power," [Dumbledore] said, "were 
marked with disappearances.  Bertha Jorkins has vanished without a 
trace in the place where Voldemort was certainly known to be last.  
Mr. Crouch too has disappeared...within these very grounds.  And there 
was a third disappearance, one which the Ministry, I regret to say, do 
not consider of any importance, for it concerns a Muggle.  His name 
was Frank Bryce, he lived in the village where Voldemort's father grew 
up, and he has not been seen since last August.  You see, I read the 
Muggle newspapers, unlike most of my Ministry friends."

So the MoM does not bother about Muggle deaths at all, even though, in 
Frank Bryce's case, Dumbledore has brought it to their attention, 
it happened in the *same village* as Tom Riddle's father and 
grandparents' deaths, and the MoM has previous experience with 
Voldemort to help them see its importance.  Even Dumbledore says 
that FB lived in the same village where Voldemort's father *grew 
up,* not *was murdered,* so does anyone, at this point, actually know 
the Riddles were AKed?

The MoM does not, as far as I can see, have an "AK detector" either, 
or someone would have apparated to the graveyard later on.

No, Tom Riddle disappeared to lay plans and search for immortality.  I 
can well believe that that took 25 years (the immortality part, 
especially).

Annemehr