[HPforGrownups] Re: Good blood/bad blood (was Greatest Fear/greatest Hope)

[Magnus]

No: HPFGUIDX 121481


I can certainly agree with the idea that Riddle did not mean for
Myrtle to die. The reasoning behind this is very simple as well.  Take
the journey with me, won't you?

Tom Riddle admitted to Harry that he had already been using the
pseudonym "Voldemort" while still in school. He is also admittedly
capable of charming just the right people, the ones he needs to
accomplish his goals. Would it not then stand to reason that Riddle
was simply using the basalisk attacks to cover up something more
heinous? That would explain the need for his alternate plan of framing
Hagrid when he found out that he was being sent back to the orphanage.
Naturally, he would never have needed to do so if Myrtle had not been
in the wrong place at the wrong time. This also brings me to another
question. Would it have been possible that Voldemort had not planned
on killing anyone until after he graduated from Hogwarts? Yet again,
is it possible that he was also disappointed that he could not say
that his father and grandparents were his first victims?

--Magnus