Riddle Bits

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No: HPFGUIDX 115247


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mhbobbin" <mhbobbin at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> Two little bits about Riddle stick in my mind and I'm wondering if 
> there are any theories, new or from previous discussions, about 
them.
> 
> The first is in Cos Chapter 13, when Harry contemplates the name 
Tom 
> Riddle: "And while Harry was sure he'd never heard the name T.M. 
> Riddle before, it seemed to mean something to him, almost as 
though 
> Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and had half-
> forgotten. But this was absurd. He'd never had friends before 
> Hogwarts, Dudley made sure of it."
> 
> Is this memory really Harry's? Or is it a glimmer of what LV left 
in 
> his brain that is vaguely remembering the name Tom Riddle?
> Or did Harry hear the name when he was an baby? or a small child 
at 
> the Dursleys?

perhaps young Harry had dreams and maybe even an 'imaginary friend' 
who owed much to Tom Marvolo Riddle. he would have needed 
*something* to get him through those long dark tea times of the soul 
locked under the stairs with no-one who loved him to help.
 
> ---
> second bit: In the first chapter of GoF, the murders of the 
Riddles 
> of Little Hangleton are described. Frank Bryce told the 
police "the 
> only person he had seen near the house on the day of the Riddles' 
> deaths had been a teenage boy, a stranger, dark-haired and pale. 
> Nobody else in the village had seen any such boy..."
> 
> Of course, we automatically assume the teenage boy is Tom Riddle, 
> there to murder his muggle father and grandparents. I still lean 
> towards believing that. But in examining everything that Riddle 
did 
> on his way to becoming LV, well, we have so little information. 
> So on re-examination, has anyone else seen a theory, or 
considered, 
> that the teenage boy that Frank sees is not Tom (Lv) Riddle but 
> rather Time Turner Harry, going back to look for Riddle. Maybe to 
> learn something about Riddle on a date (due to the obituaries) 
where 
> Harry knew where to find him with few people around to see him. I 
> know Time Turning is unpopular, but I am still curious about this 
> bit.
> 
> mhbobbin

I really hate the idea of time-turners being used for anything more 
than a few hours at best. I liked the post (sorry not to be able to 
quote it) to suggest that Hagrid may have used TT to remove the 
PS/SS before Quirrel!Mort stole it and for Snape to apparate as DE 
at the graveyard in GoF (not that I think he did this), but over 
long time I think its nonsense and dangerous (logistically 
unmanageable): One of my chief reasons for thinking the DD=Ron 
theory is utter tosh.

just my own views of course.