Tom Riddle's Name (was RE: [HPforGrownups])

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 99202

Hi,

I guess I can say I'm a new kid on the block, so to speak, and have really
enjoyed reading the myriad of posts I've seen over the past few days.
Suffice it to say that I only have about 200 more to read before I'm really
current! <Grin>


| From: alina at distantplace.net (Replying to Wanda):
|
| 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.

[Lee responds]: <Grin>

Remember in COS, the 16-year-old Tom used Harry's wand and, writing out the
letters of his full name, scrambled them into: "I Am Lord Voldemort."  In my
opinion, simply put, Tom decided to make something he desperately hated into
something he could use to his advantage...something he could love (if
Voldemort could love anything save for power!) :-)

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

[Lee, chuckling]: Yes, the ultimate irony, I guess.  And magnify that to all
the other "pure-blood wizarding families" serving LV...Hmm--something
interesting to stimulate the brain cells.

P.S.--Any HP people in New Jersey? I live in Madison, and my house would
make Petunia cry! :-)

Peace,

Lee

Do not walk behind me,     | Lee Storm
I may not care to lead;    | N2FGC
Do not walk before me,     | n2fgc at optonline.net (or)
I may not care to follow;  | n2fgc at arrl.net
Walk beside me, and be my friend.