Just an odd silly thought.

[wickywackywoo2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 134225

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Cat <Catalyna_99 at y...> wrote:
> 
 And I'm not buying that the whole WW didn't know Tom and Lord
Voldemort were the same person... Dumbldore recognized him when
applying for the Dark Arts position, as I'm sure many of his fellow
students would have.

I did wonder also if that was a disconnect with what we were told
previously (I think in CoS).  Didn't Dumbledore say there that by the
time LV emerged and his power was recognized, nobody connected him
with the handsome, successful schoolboy he had been?  Yet he could
hardly get anyone to give up memories of Tom Riddle for the Pensieve,
so they MUST have known that the two were identical, or else why the
fear?  All I can think is that maybe he was referring to his
*physical* alteration - he no longer physically resembled the boy he
had been, and people who had known Tom Riddle as a boy would not have
been able to recognize him later in life.  By the way, that was a very
chilling little touch Rowling threw in there, when she said that he
was physically changing because he was losing pieces of his soul.  I
don't know why, but it sounds even scarier than the Picture of Dorian
Gray.

Wanda