[HPforGrownups] Re:The name Riddle

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 154322

In a message dated 6/24/06 8:21:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
josturgess at eircom.net writes:


> Because the boy Tom 
> is the riddle to be answered and who better to answer that than 
> Harry Potter.
> 
> 

How interesting that you put it this way. Until I joined this list I never 
read the books looking for any kind of hidden meanings, although I have looked 
for the clues JKR says are there, and have never found them. What can I say? A 
detective I'm not. BUT, the one thing that jumped out at me the first time I 
read it, and has niggled at me since is *why* JKR chose to give Voldemort the 
real name of Tom RIDDLE. Is there some significance to this? Is Voldemort 
merely a riddle that needs to be solved? I guess that it could be said that HBP 
solved the *riddle* of Voldemort, but I don't think that is necessarily so. There 
has to be more. Thoughts anyone?

Sandy


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