Isn't his real name Tom Riddle?(was Precious little to celebrate)

[greenfirespike]

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Marianne said:
> > Everyone is scared to death of saying Voldemort, which I think 
> > lends too much power to him in everyone's mind.  Why, then, 
didn't DD or the Order or the Ministry simply start calling him Tom 
Riddle?  It's rather a pleasant name, and not at all scary.  Did 
they really go through the entire 11 years not knowing his real 
identity?  
 

SSSusan said:
> One of the more interesting theories I've heard about this (and 
wish I could remember whom to credit, darn it) is that DD hasn't 
revealed the connection between Voldy & Tom Riddle because doing so 
would *hurt* someone he cares about.  
 
> The suggestion, IIRC, is that someone -- perhaps even Minerva 
> McGonagall -- was married to Tom Riddle, might even have had a 
> family, and that some of the WW knows about that marriage, whereas 
> very few know that Tom Riddle became Voldy.  So, to broadcast to 
the WW that TR = Voldy might be hurtful to this woman/this family or 
could tarnish their reputation.
> 
> Far-fetched, I suppose, but still an intriguing possibility.


Greenfirespike says:


I don't think Tom married Minerva, cannon makes pretty clear that LV 
(and thusly Tom) never experienced love.  I am sure Minerva would 
never enter into a loveless marriage, a foolish young love fling I 
can see, but not a loveless one.  For what it is worth, I think DD 
and Minerva are married; or former lovers.  

Perhaps DD calling LV by his birth name, Tom, while in the ministry 
was twofold; first letting Tom know that DD is well aware of who he 
is and who he was, and secondly letting the remaining DE's know that 
their leader is a half-blood himself.  

IMO DD didn't know that LV was Tom Riddle until the end of VWI.  

Greenfirespike   

As an aside, did anyone else notice this!?!

In FQA, about the book, JKR said is response to the question: What 
education to children of wizards have before going to Hogwarts?

"Even Muggle-borns like Harry attract a certain amount of unwelcome 
attention at schools by re-growing their hair overnight and so on."