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

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 103751

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pandrea100" <pandrea100 at h...> 
wrote:
> Which?  Voldemort, or the Prince?  I think Tom chose Voldemort as 
his 
> new name himself, marking his attempt to master death.  As for the 
> Prince name, whether he chose it or it was bestowed on him by 
others, 
> it still seems unlikely he cast it away in favour of Lord.

GEO: Why not? Being marked as a halfblood would not have made his 
life any easier in Slytherin especially since he was surrounded by 
mostly purebloods who regarded the muggleborns as scum and probably 
put him at the bottom of the social ladder because of his muggle 
father.