Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[Debra]

No: HPFGUIDX 103140

>>> Jason:
>>> In that case, Half blood prince may be referring to Tom Marvolor 
>>> Riddle before he becomes Voldemort. We were promised more on his 
>>> birth and backstory and maybe we'll find out why the name Tom 
>>> Riddle seemed to mean something to Harry. Like a friend he'd long 
>>> since forgotten! :-)

>> Debra:
>> That's true, that was mentioned. However, I think that was just 
>> foreshadowing to the fact that Harry had met him before, with a 
>> different name, and had yet to find out who he really was. Or 
>> perhaps the entire opening of GF, including the mystery of the 
>> Riddle family, was part of Harry's dream that made his scar hurt 
>> for the first time since SS/PS, and therefore he *had* already 
>> heard the name before.

> Gina:
> <snip> Was LV at some point a friend to someone before going bad? 
> Does he HAVE a son that maybe Harry knew at some point - maybe 
> there is another TR Jr. that lives in Little Whinging that went to 
> school with Harry long ago and thus the Ministry comment about the 
> situation in Little Whinging regarding other wizards living there???

Debra:
I don't think TR was involved in anything good before he went bad, 
because as LV he mentions always having had so much hate in his 
childhood, and at sixteen years old he said that he had been looking 
for Slytherin's method of killing mudbloods for five years. I also 
don't think there's a TR Jr. because according to Dumbledore, TR/LV 
was the last remaining heir of Slytherin. And since JKR often uses 
Dumbledore as a means of relaying information to the reader, I think 
we can take that at face value and not argue over how much DD does or 
does not know on the subject.