Who owns the Riddle house now?

[mfterman]

No: HPFGUIDX 127175



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ann Crutchley"
<rosie_27018 at y...> wrote:
> If you're evil why would you do something law abiding? He knows 
> the towns people wouldn't bother him. It was just unfornate for 
> Frank. I'm sure if Voldemort would have been stronger and had not 
> just arrived he would have taken care of Frank sooner. 

You know, just because Voldemort is evil doesn't mean he's under this
compulsion only to do illegal things. And there were a number of
reasons for him to buy the house legally. Among other things, it
avoided attention from a number of people, including his own Death
Eaters. Remember that very few of them knew that he was once Tom
Riddle, a half-blood.

And I think part of him would be pleased to be the legal owner of it
in some perverse way, to defile the memory of his father. Remember
that he was disinherited by his Muggle family, to actually own the
property that they cut away from him I think would amuse him. That it
was all perfectly legal would make it only more perverse.

In fact owning the house is one of the best ways for him to gain
vengence on his deceased Muggle ancestors, owning the Riddle mansion
and making it his own. That's the main reason I think he's the actual
owner of the thing. They try to cut him off and he ends up with all of
their things (or at least the significant ones) anyway.

mfterman