the term "professor" and titles in general (was: Snape's

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 58623

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Grosskreutz" 
<ivanova at i...> wrote:
>  Odile:
> And while I'm at it, why is Voldemort a "Lord," yet
> the seemingly aristocratic Malfoy is "Mister"? Or is
> that movie contamination as well?
> 
> Eloise:
> I think someone else has already pointed out that Voldemort 
> *assumed* the title "Lord" for himself.

> Kelly:
> <snip> "Dark Lord."  Is it just me, or are the majority of the
> people who use this term either DE's or associated with them 
> somehow (like Dobby)?  


Valkys two knuts:

I have done a little reckoning about this subject, and I'm beginning 
to see a possible scenario that fits. Assuming LV's babyhood 
coincides with the date 1927, he would be some 60 something years old 
at the time Harry began Hogwarts. Eleven years previous he would be 
50 something. 
Hence, a consideration of the period of time between his graduation 
from school and his Dark reign. Canon says that this was {55-11=43 43-
18=25} 25 years. 

"We have had precious little to celebrate these eleven years.." 
Dumbledore Ch1 PS.

So in approx 25 years we have a seemingly unassuming Tom/Voldemort 
existing in the wizard world and not bearing a dark reign of terror.
I suspect that during this time he may have laid a legitimate claim 
to a Lordship, and that is why DD uses the term in his address. 

We know he fashioned the name Lord Voldemort in his youth. That much 
is canon and cannot be denied. I am not denying it merely suggesting 
he may have set about making it a legitimate title in his young 
adulthood. He had 26 years to do it.