Marriage at Hogwarts and in the WW

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 137522


> SSSusan:
<snip> 
> There has also been speculation at HPfGU that McGonagall was once 
> married to Tom Riddle, perhaps even having a child with him.  I 
> believe this suggestion was raised in an attempt to explain why DD 
> never did broadcast to the world "Lord Voldemort is really this 
half-
> blood kid I once taught, Tom Riddle!"  I mean, really, why NOT 
> broadcast that fact?  Surely it would have lowered his esteem for 
> many DEs.  One possible explanation was that doing so would harm 
> someone, that DD wanted to protect someone or someone's 
reputation.  
> If MM had been married to Tom, perhaps some people remembered 
that... 
> but never knew he turned into Voldemort.

a_svirn:

I don't see how it would make any difference. Most DE surely know 
LV's previous name. We saw Nott and Avery Sr. in the Slughorn's 
memory, Dumbledore in his memory named several Voldemort's henchmen 
who waited him (and on him) in the Hog's Head at the time when 
Voldemort was still recognisably "Riddleish"; and if they knew, then 
all of them knew, I suppose. They just knew better than advertise 
their knowledge. 

As for protecting reputations
 Personally I can't see Dumbledore 
doing anything that would give Voldemort any advantage and undermine 
Harry's chances to win and survive. He himself quite frankly stated 
that he had always been prepared to sacrifice other's lives for 
Harry's happiness. He was certainly ready to trade his own life for 
Harry's (which he did). I simply can't see him choosing McGonagall's 
reputation over the chance to stop Voldemort. Not to mention that 
McGonagall herself wouldn't allow it to happen.  

> SSSusan:
> 
> A pretty Out There notion, I"ll grant :-) but I present it just as 
> something else which has been speculated about here concerning 
> Hogwarts teachers' marital status.  I think HBP seemingly 
eliminates 
> this MM/Riddle possibility, too, since DD seems to have struggled 
to 
> find out where Tom went and what he did for many years.  Surely if 
> he'd had a relationship with MM, DD would have accessed *her* 
> memories.
> 
> But the question of why DD didn't tell the whole WW that TR = LV 
is 
> still intriguing, no?
> 

a_svirn:

Maybe no one asked? Dumbledore doesn't strike me as a type to write 
open letters to the Daily Prophet