Riddle House

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 90655

Carol wrote:

<snip>I personally can't imagine Lucius "lowering" himself to pose as 
a Muggle or succeeding in the attempt. (Lucius with a Muggle haircut 
and a business suit, negotiating with Muggle real estate agents and 
purchasing the [Riddle] house with Muggle money?

Berit replies:

Well, what are lawyers/solicitors for anyway? If the current 
owner/buyer of the Riddle house is indeed Lucius, he would of course 
have made his (wizard) lawyer (who looks and dresses like a Muggle) 
or someone else under his command deal with the estate agent, the 
payment, the exhange from wizard to Muggle money and so on... Lucius 
wouldn't have to "lower" himself one bit; he is wealthy enough to 
make others do the "lowering" for him :-)

Just my two knuts; I really don't have any opinion on who owns the 
Riddle house; though I lean towards a wizard mostly because none of 
the Little Hangleton Muggles have any clue as to who the mystery 
owner is; he stays very "invisible". I think the owner could possibly 
be Voldemort himself. There would have been plenty of time for him to 
buy it between the time of his Muggle father's death, after the two 
Muggle owners, till his downfall at Godric's Hollow. Why would he 
want to own the house of the Muggle father he hated above anyone 
else? Well, Voldie is first and foremost very practical-minded and he 
might have thought the house would come in handy one day. And it did: 
He used it as his headquarters the summer before Harry's fourth year.

Berit
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