The Riddles' Murders (WAS: The only one he ever feared?

[ohnooboe]

No: HPFGUIDX 117581



> 
> Kim asks Patrick:
> 
> What did you think of the rest of my post insofar as it might 
relate to your view of DD's life experience and magically advanced 
state of mind (which you could easily be right about)?
> 
> Here's the rest of what I'd written:  "... So what guided [DD's] 
> decision to keep it to himself if he did indeed suspect the 
student 
> Tom Riddle of killing 3 Muggles in Little Hangleton? Sometimes DD 
> reminds me of Emperor Claudius (in the PBS/BBC series "I, 
> Claudius") ... when he said, "Let all the poisons that lurk in the 
> mud hatch out..."

Good question.  Again, I think this is one of those things that we 
wax philosophic about, but can never truly...well, that's the FUN of 
philosophy!  So...Whatever stopped DD from pursuing TR as the "prime 
suspect" and taking that to the MoM (or Wizengamut, or whoever) 
stopped him not only in this instance, but also previously when DD 
kept "an annoyingly close watch" over TR after the CoS incident
(those were roughly TR's words anyway...)  This "something", then, 
stopped him twice from turning in TR.  

Here is where we could welcome in the old Time Turner theory (which 
we won't...please...oh dear god please...DD sees what happens and 
goes back in time to put the pieces in place so that...yeah...) 
because it puts and explination in a place that we can understand, 
however, I don't think that's the explination we need.  I don't 
think we're really meant to understand why DD does what he does.  
It's completely possible, as Kim pointed out, that DD has heard more 
than one prophesy about the events that lead up to the defeat of 
LV.  Maybe his defeat of Grindelwald also plays into this somehow.  

These are all possibilities, but I think they are somehow 
rationalizations for DD's behavior; ways to try and understand what 
DD does...why would he need a warm pair of socks...his love for 
Muggle candy...his off-handed displays of power...  DD does what he 
does because in the life of a seemingly omnipresent, well-aged, 
uberwizard this is the typical modus operandi.  The only problem is 
that he's the ONLY "seemingly omnipresent, well-aged, uberwizard" 
and therefore comes off as either a bit off his gourd or overly 
eccentric.  

Patrick...who lost his train of thought a long time ago and should 
have stopped while he was ahead...