Was LV a teacher in Hogwarts ?

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 88797

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...>
wrote:
> "frost_indri" wrote:
> 
> > 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 canon agrees with it.  
> 
> I remember that quote, but I also remember that it is Dumbledore
who 
> said that. And by now, I've grown *very* suspicious of anything DD 
> might say, because he's proven in the past that he says only the 
> parts of the truth that he doesn't mind revealing.  <snip...>

In particular, he said "He disappeared *after leaving the school*".
Tom could, with this phrasing, have stayed at Hogwarts after 
graduating as a teacher for a few years before disappearing, and 
because he didn't leave Hogwarts, it would technically be accurate.

And anything DD says tends to twist meanings...

--Arcum