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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 103743

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "" <greatelderone at y...> wrote:
> --- 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.  

greatelderone:
> 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?

Geoff:
But in COS, Tom demonstrates that the name came from creating an 
anagram of Tom Marvolo Riddle and to make a sensible one, it would 
seem that he had to include the word Lord, which probably pleased him 
immensely. I suppose he could have had a different name to Voldemort 
to fit the anagram. Also, Voldemort has a certain attraction for him 
because, as someone pointed out in post 75645, Voldemort is the 
French "vol de mort" meaning "flight of death". What better name for 
a seriously evil Dark Lord?