Tom Riddle

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 81275

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "maneelyfh" <maneelyfh at y...> 
wrote:
> > Fran: 
> > > You may want to check p. 646 of GOF.  He tells Harry about his 
> > muggle-
> > > born father etc., before the DE's come to the graveyard.

The DE's were at the graveyard. They know why they are all there - 
Voldemort tells them "My father's bone, naturally, meant that he 
would have to come here, where he was burried" (GoF, Am.Ed. pp 656).
This is a "muggle" vilage and a "muggle" graveyard. They have to 
know this means his father was a muggle. We know that Malfoy Senior 
at least knew that Voldemort was Tom Riddle for a long time (since 
he was the one who owned the diary in CoS). The diary was purchased 
in a muggle shop (as Harry notices in CoS). Why would a pure blood 
wizard ever need to buy anything from muggles?

Bellatrix never argues with Harry about the truthfullness of his 
statement in OoP. She knows it to be true. That does not seem to 
make her any less devoted to Voldemort.

The campaign is first and foremost against mudbloods, not half 
bloods. It's possible that those would be dealt with later if they 
win, but I doubt it. There is the other issue of royalty. Voldemort 
may be half blood but he is also the last descendant of Slytherin. I 
think that in the eyes of the dark wizards, that fact more than 
compensates for the lack of proper heritage on his father's side.

> I have always been curious what the reaction of the DE's would be 
or 
> possibly will be if/when they find out that LV is indeed a 
halfblood.

It would make no difference to them. They already know it. Just 
think of the Nazis who worshipped Hitler, even though he was not 
pure Arian, and in fact had some Jewish blood in him. The important 
point about blind racism of that type is that reason has no part in 
it. Trying to get bigoted people to change their way by pointing out 
an error of reasoning in their way of thinking is bound to fail. 
They have set their mind and will simply ignore anything that does 
not fit nicely into their world view.

Salit