Voldemort's name

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 82008

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jamess at c... wrote:
> Geoff Bannister wrote:
> 
> Towards the end of COS, Dumbledore explains to the Weasleys that 
very
> few people know that Lord Voldemort was once Tom Riddle and had been
> at Hogwarts. Therefore, those brave enough not to say "You Know Who"
> or whatever presumably only know the title LV.
> 
> James Writes:
> 
> I had a flick through the books last night and came up with an 
idea. Did DD
> atualy know that TR=LV before the events of CS? The signficance of 
DD
> calling LV "Tom" during the fight in OotP may have been a "ha! I 
know who
> you are now!" thing.

Geoff:
Looking at Dumbledore's comments and reactions in COS (p.242 UK 
edition), I think he did know. He appears to know that Riddle 
disappeared, travelled far and wide etc.

Regarding his name, I suspect that he is probably Tom and not Thomas; 
if not, why did he tend to use the form Tom Marvolo Riddle? 

Don't tell me - Thomas Marvolo Riddle wouldn't give such a good 
anagram!

Re Dumbledore calling him "Tom". I often have contact with old 
pupils; some folk I taught are now into their fifties. I still tend 
to address them by their first names. It's what I was used to doing 
in years past.

Is Dumbledore more likely to want to make LV feel small or to try to 
reach something reachable? I shall duck, don a tin hat, duck behind 
the battlements and wait for the theories to fly over me.