Blood & predjudice...or what makes for strange bedfellows? (Long....)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 150358

> kchuplis:
> 
> I have wondered since OoTP how many DEs really knew LV was a half- 
> blood since Bella gets sooooooooo enraged when Harry says "did he  
> ever tell you he was a dirty half-blood".  (sic - sorry, no book  
> nearby - quel horreur) I seriously think she thought Harry was 
lying  
> and defaming. I mean, he really did believe for a long time his  
> father must have been some really important wizard (until he could  
> never find the name anywhere). Who knows what lies he told everyone  
> else.


Jen: Once he discovered the Slytherin connection, Riddle just promoted 
that and dropped the rest of his heritage. And not just dropping it or 
denying it, but literally ending his Muggle line. But then he talks 
about his Muggle father to Harry and Wormtail in the graveyard, and 
mentions his father's grave in his speech to the DE's. Not exactly 
trying to hide his heritage, eh?

I don't understand who knows within the DE's. Wormtail definitely, and 
you'd think a couple of other DE's would have figured out in the 
graveyard if they didn't know already. Voldemort gave Lucius the diary 
bought at a Muggle store and Lucius knows his original name and could 
likely trace his heritage if interested. So I didn't completely 
understand Bella's outrage unless she's one of the last to know! That 
wouldn't surprise me, nor that she just denies it to keep her 
zealousness alive.  Sometimes I wonder if those hints were dropped 
because it's going to be important for the ending.

Jen R.