The only one he ever feared?

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 117262


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Chancie wrote:
> > A thought came to me as I was reading some other posts, and 
> > at the risk of sounding very stupid I figured I'd go ahead and 
> > throw this on out there.
> > 
> >     Why is DD the only wizard Voldemort feared?  
> 
> Eustace_Scrubb:
> Great question, don't worry...
> 
> In addition to what others have said:
> 
> 1) Voldemort believes Dumbledore has been "onto him" at least since
> Tom Riddle's fifth year at Hogwarts.  Dumbledore is one of the few
> people who know that Tom Riddle transformed himself into 
Voldemort. 
> Voldemort probably either knows or suspects that Dumbledore knows 
more
> about Tom Riddle's history than anyone else (maybe even more than
> Voldemort knows himself).
> 2) Dumbledore defeated Voldemort's "predecessor," Grindelwald.
> 3) Voldemort knows that Dumbledore knows more about Harry (via the
> prophecy) than Voldemort does.
> 4) Voldemort believes that Harry is the one with power to vanquish 
the
> Dark Lord--even if he still doesn't know the whole prophecy--and he
> probably believes that Harry can only develop his powers fully 
under
> Dumbledore's guidance.
> 
> My 4 cents,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eustace_Scrubb
> "Not useless," said the Owl.  "Eustace!"

Katrina:

I think that's exactly it.  What LV fears about DD is what he 
knows.  I've heard it postulated that when TR dropped "off the radar 
screen" after he finished at Hogwarts, it was because of the triple 
AK murder in Little Hangleton.  The ministry had to know about this: 
talk about a violation of the Statute of Secrecy!  And since the 
victims were named "Riddle," someone had to have been able to put 
2+2 together.

I doubt if anyone knows as much about LV's past as DD.  I'd even go 
so far as to say that the reason DD called him "Tom" in the MoM was 
to remind him of that fact.

Something else to ponder, anyway.