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

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 103755

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pandrea100" <pandrea100 at h...> 
wrote:
> I forgot all about that and now I'm wondering - who on earth did 
> everyone else think Voldemort WAS then?  Where did they imagine 
he'd 
> come from?  And did no one who was at school with Tom Riddle ever 
> wonder what happened to him?  The wizarding world is smaller than 
> ours, you'd think someone would have put two and two 
> together ... "hmm, remember that guy we were at school with?  He 
> disappeared around about the time Voldemort started trying to rule 
> the world, could there be a connection?"

And the fact that the name "Lord Voldemort" was actually known by 
Riddle's close friends at school!  Sure, he disappeared after 
graduation, and then when he reappeared he was basically 
unrecognizable, but didn't someone hear the name and say, "Hey, 
that's what we used to call good old Tom Riddle back at Hogwarts!  
Funny thing about Tom, we just lost touch after graduation - he 
never comes to the reunions.  I wonder what he's up to these days?"  
Maybe his closest friends became his first Death Eaters, and the 
secret stayed within the original circle.  But I wonder whatever 
happened to those friends of his?  How old would they be now?  I 
figured maybe about Fudge's age...

Wanda