Tom Riddle

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 81214

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nyrae22" <nyrae22 at y...> wrote:
> I am a new member so I am sure that this may have been brought up 
> before but it has been driving me crazy to see what everyone else 
> thinks. Lord Voldemort is Tom Riddle, and Tom Riddle has a muggle 
for 
> a father which means he is not pure blood. How is it that he is the 
> heir of Slytherin in CoS? Also, don't Voldemort's supporters want 
to 
> purify by getting rid of all muggle borns? How can someone who is 
> muggle born lead that revolt? 



Geoff:
Riddle is not a muggle. He is a half-blood - his mother was a witch.



> Does everyone know that Voldemort is 
> Tom Riddle and that he is muggle born?


Geoff:
Dumbledore - "Very few people knew that Lord Voldemort was once 
called Tom Riddle. I taught him myself, fifty years ago at Hogwarts. 
He disappeared after leaving the school...... travelled far and 
wide.... sank so deeply into the Dark Arts, consorted with the very 
worst of our kind, underwent so many dangerous, magical 
transformations, that when he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, he was 
barely recognisable. Hardly anyone connected Lord Voldemort with the 
clever, handsome boy who was once Head Boy here."
(COS UK edition p.242)