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[alina at distantplace.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 99018

Wanda wrote:
A few days ago, there was a little discussion about the Riddle
family, with posters clearing up confusions over just who was who,
and who killed whom.  It's easy to get confused, as there are two
Tom Riddles to keep track of.  And then it occurred to me...how very
odd that that would be the case!  It's unusual in Rowling's books
for a father and son to have the same name.  In fact, I can think of
only one other example:  Barty Crouch Sr. and Jr.  Now, it was
significant for the plot that the two Crouches shared a name,
because it succeeded in throwing a red herring across our path when
Harry saw the name on the Marauder's Map.  This leads me to believe
that such an unusual occurrence in the Riddle family might ALSO be
of use, plot-wise.  Can anyone think of any reasons why Tom Riddle
would have to have the same name as his father?  Because I really do
think that it's going to turn out to advance the plot somehow.


My reply:

I don't have my books at hand, but I believe in his conversation with Harry,
the 16 year old Riddle said something along the lines of his name being the
only thing his muggle father left him. Come to think of it, maybe he said
that during the graveyard resurrection scene, either way I'm pretty sure he
said something to that extent. Basically, I think that's the whole
significance of the same father/son name in this case. That Voldemort, for
all his pure-blooded, anti-muggle/mudblood zeal has to go through life with
a muggle name.


Alina,
who, for all her hatred for Voldemort, derives pleasure from the image of
Malfoy serving the whims of a "mudblood."