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

[Ashley]

No: HPFGUIDX 103726

<greatelderone at y...> wrote:
 
> 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?

In CoS, Dumbledore tells Harry that he is one of few people who know 
Riddle to be Voldemort, and if it was a nickname given to him while 
in school, wouldn't more people know about it?  Also, the fact that 
Tom Marvolo Riddle switched around spells "I am Lord Voldemort" says 
to me that LV is a name he chose himself, and very creatively so.

Brenna