Knights of Walpurgis Re: Why Tom Riddle isn't the "Prince"

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 103712

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pandrea100" <pandrea100 at h...> 
wrote:
> If it's the latter, then we have Tom being known first as a 
prince, 
> then changing his name to Voldemort, but demoting himself by 
asking 
> his followers to call him LORD Voldemort, Lord being lower than a 
> prince.  That seems really unlikely.  

How do you know that he bestowed it on himself. Perhaps it was a 
nick name given to him by his fellow students at Hogwarts that he 
later cast away after he rejected his heritage as a half-blood and 
became obessessed with the whole pureblood supremacy thing?