The only one he ever feared?

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No: HPFGUIDX 117263


Katrina wrote:

> <snip> 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.<

Kim here, even more intrigued now with this discussion:

Without realizing it, Katrina has given me another excuse to go back 
and re-read parts of OotP (my favorite of the series).  I had no 
recollection of DD calling LV "Tom" during the MoM battle in OotP.  
That DD is a sly one, isn't he.

It also hadn't occurred to me that the MoM would have been on the 
look-out for the murderer of the 3 "Muggle" Riddles.  Tom Jr. was 
spotted in the vicinity, wasn't he, but was unknown to the Muggles in 
the area, though you're right -- not to the "all-seeing eye" of the 
MoM.  The MoM would have known that AKs had been used even if the 
cause of the deaths had stumped the Muggle police.  So Tom hit the 
road as a fugitive from justice.  

Keep these thoughts flowing, folks!

Cheers, Kim