Was LV a teacher in Hogwarts ?

[frost_indri]

No: HPFGUIDX 88717

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Hi again all !
> 
> Here's another weird thought that popped into my mind.
> 
> I couldn't help but notice that many of LV's supporters were very 
> young and apparently pretty much all in Slytherin while at school. 
So 
> I've been wondering if maybe LV wasn't a teacher at Hogwarts at 
the 
> time of the Marauders, and recruiting young, easily convinced 
> supporters there ? <<Snip>>
> Now, for the most obvious problems you might mention about this 
> theory.



> 
> 1. "DD would not have let that happen." <<snip> 
> 2. "People would have noticed". Not necessarily. Nobody noticed 
> anything wrong with Imposter!Moody for a whole year. <<snip>>
 
> 3... Well I can't think of a 3 right now, but I'm sure many of you 
> can, so I'm waiting for you :-)
How about this quote from DD in CoS:
  	"Very few people know that Lord Voldemort was once called 
Tom Riddle. I taught him myself, fifty years ago, at Hogwarts. He 
disappeared after leaving the school...traveled 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 recognizable.  Hardly 
anyone connected Lord Voldemort with the clever, handsome boy who 
was once Head Boy here."

	 Basically DD is telling Harry (and us) that Before he 
became the Dark Lord, Tom spent his time studying, learning, and 
changing himself in to his "beloved" snake-faced self today. So 
while the idea of Voldemort teaching at Hogwarts is plausible (you 
do have a good point in that he could have gotten away with it), I 
don't think the cannon agrees with it.  
	   As Hargrid says in PS/SS, "Anyways, this -- this wizard, 
about twenty years ago now, started lookin' fer followers.  Got 'em 
too -- some were afraid, some just wanted a bit o' his power, 'cause 
he was gettin' himself power, all right."  
  	Witches and Wizards are in the end, human.  And if they feel 
threatened (i.e. the "purebloods" have noticed that there are less 
and less of them, and more and more of the "mudbloods" and "half-
bloods."  Thus they are loosing control in the WW) they will follow 
a strong leader.  Most notably in recent history, Hitler, Stalin and 
General Mau. And of these three General Moa was the worst, he 
continually killed his followers by rising up a new communist 
revolution against them.  And somehow they kept coming to him.  
 	 Basically, I don't think Voldemort needed to do it, and I 
don't think he would if he didn't have to.  No matter what, he would 
have had to do it after spending year abroad, undergoing many 
transformations, and learning the worst kinds of magic.  So by the 
time he got back, DD was probably headmaster, and he did have 
control over who his teachers were.  
	Not to mention, youth led movements tend to antagonize the 
older generation, but the older generation (at first at least, and 
some till the last) agreed with Voldemort.  For example, the Yippie 
Movement in the lat 60's. (yes, Yippies, they were the political 
ones. The Hippies were the useless ones.) Or for that matter 
McGovern, of US Politics.  He got the Democratic Nomination of the 
Youth Vote, but 
well, other than running an absolutely terrible 
campaign, he was rejected by the adults, and Nixon won his second 
term by a landslide. The youth vote wasn't enough to win.

	  As for the spy!Snape theory, why wouldn't Voldemort want a 
DE that was working under DD?  That just means that he has someone 
on the inside of Hogwarts who can gather information for him, start 
a secret "Voldemort Youth"  club, and spread dissent, place 
paintings with DE sympathies around (spies), etc. etc.  So 
Basically, that would make Snape a double agent.  And cue the "James 
Bond Music!"  

Frost