Motivations for Joining DEs - Pure blood and Propaganda

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 140977

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <belviso at a...> wrote:
> > Elyse: So how come Voldemort was able to masquerade around as a 
> > pureblood? Okay, even if he wasnt faking it, how can he go around 
> > telling DE's that he is pureblood? 
> 
> Magpie:
> 
> Pretty easily, it seems to be, given that Lord Voldemort isn't his 
> real name.  Bellatrix doesn't know he's Tom Riddle, so she couldn't 
> look anything up (there is no Wizarding titled aristocracy either, 
> so "Lord Voldemort" wouldn't be an inherited thing).  He probably 
> presented himself as a mysterious figure, one who speaks 
> Parseltongue etc. and hates Muggleborns and Muggles and people like 
> Bellatrix naturally assumed he was Pureblood.  Or at least had two 
> magical parents.  It's not like Voldemort allows people to openly 
> question him and he does have an impressive pedigree in his way as 
> the actual Heir of Slytherin.  

Amiable Dorsai:
Also, nobody knows, save Dumbledore, Harry, and whoever they've told.

Riddle didn't know his ancestry until roughly his sixth year, and he
certainly wouldn't have advertised it.  Dumbledore had to work it out
for himself as well. 

Even those who knew Tom Riddle in school would not have been aware of
his parentage.

Amiable Dorsai