CoS -Harry's knowledge of Lord Voldemort- Post 2

Beatrice23 beatrice23 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 13 18:15:43 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 161461

Post 2 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Harry's knowledge
of Lord Voldemort

This is the second in a series of posts.  The first post address 
information from SS/PS and can be found at Post #161027

1. Here are a couple of facts about Borgin and Burkes that we learn 
from Harry's accidental visit to the store. This may be relevant as 
we know from HBP that LV worked there for a period of
time:
A. Located in Knockturn Alley – an area off of Diagon Alley
associated with Dark Magic (Hagrid).
B. Mr. Borgin runs the shop (no information on Mr. or Ms. Burke)
C. Borgin is acquainted with the Malfoy family.
D. It is a "large, dimly lit wizard's shop- but nothing in here
was ever likely to be on a Hogwarts school list." (Harry)
E. Included in the items mentioned in the store are the
vanishing cabinet, the hand of glory, the opal necklace, etc.
F. Mr. Malfoy sells Borgin some poisons that might be seen as 
dangerous/ illegal, because of Mr. Weasley's new Muggle Protection 
Act.
G. Borgin believes in the importance of wizarding blood.
(All of the above are taken from pages 49-54)

2. Slytherin is rumored to have built a secret chamber which
housed a monster whose purpose was to purge the school of any who
are not pure blooded (131).

3. Access to the Chamber of Secrets is rumored to be limited
only to the heir of Slytherin (Slytherin's descendents) (131)

4. The Chamber of Secrets was opened 50 years before Harry's
2nd year (aprox. 1992) which places the opening around 1942.
4a. Nearly Headless Nick died in 1492 which is 500 years exactly from 
the opening of CoS (133).  

5. Tom Marvolo Riddle kept a "blank" diary, purchased in
Vauxhall Road, London, dating back 50 years prior to the year that
the Chamber was last opened (231)

6. Tom Riddle received a "Special Service to the School Award"
the same year that the CoS was opened (231)

7. "[W]hile Harry was sure he had never heard the name TM Riddle 
before, it still seemed to mean something to him, almost as though 
Riddle was a friend he'd had when he was very small, and half-
forgotten." (233-4)

8. Riddle also received a "Medal for Magical Merit" and was
head boy during his time at Hogwarts (234)

9. Riddle used "magic" to leave his memories in the diary. He is
able to "speak" to people who write on the pages (240) (We know know 
that the magic in question here is the horcrux TR encased in the 
diary - probably after Myrtle's death -HBP).

10. Hagrid was expelled for opening the chamber and Myrtle was killed 
on June 13, 1943. (243)

11. The CoS was opened in Riddle's 5th year at Hogwarts.  (241) This 
was also Hagrid's 3rd year (in SS /PS Hagrid reveals that he  was 
expelled in his third year).

11. The diary has powers similar to the pensieve (242)

12. Tom Riddle spent summers at a muggle orphanage (244).
However, in the year that he opened the CoS, TR wanted to stay at
Hogwarts for the summer. Headmaster Dippet indicated that this was
not possible given the events surrounding the chamber, (243-4)
however, TR frames Hagrid and the attacks cease. (246) Does TR get
to stay at Hogwarts that summer?
A. We know that TR leaves the orphanage to murder his father in
the summer of his 6th year (one year later). Does he go back to the
orphanage? Does he leave it at any other time during those
summers? Does he visit Grindelwald?

12. Hagrid, Moaning Myrtle, and Olive Hornby attended school
with LV (299)

13. Moaning Myrtle was killed when LV released the basilisk 50
years before (299)

14. LV grows stronger by feeding on Ginny's soul (her deepest
secrets and darkest fears) and begins to "feed a little bit of his
soul back to her" (310).

15. TR was responsible for opening the CoS (312) opening the CoS 
requires that the person speak parsletongue.  (300)

16. TR (the TR in the diary) is seeking to destroy Harry (313)

17. Dumbledore did not favor TR as the other professors did. TR
believes that DD may have guessed he was responsible for opening the
CoS (312)

18. Tom Marvolo Riddle is Lord Voldemort (I am Lord Voldemort is
an anagram from TMR's name) (314)

19. LV's goal is to be feared by wizards everywhere and to
become the greatest sorcerer in the world (314)

20. LV's eyes gleam red (313)

21. LV is a descendent of Salazar Slytherin (314)  Harry, Salazar 
Slitherin, and Lord Voldemort speak parseltongue (192 and 314)

22. LV is angered at the suggestion that Dumbledore is better /
stronger than he is. LV is afraid of DD (314)

23. TR sees a resemblance between himself and Harry (both
orphans, raised by muggles, both parsemouths, dark hair) yet, TR sees
nothing "special" about Harry (317)

24. LV is a parselmouth (317) as was Slytherin (191)

25. Harry destroyed the diary horcrux by plunging a basilisk
fang into it (317)

26. Ginny was possessed by Riddle and forced to open the chamber
(323)

27. Dumbledore taught TR / LV when he was at Hogwarts (329)

28. LV "disappeared after leaving the school . . . traveled far
and wide . . .sank so deeply into the Dark arts, consorted with the
very worst of our kind, underwent so many dangerous, magical
transformations, that when he resurfaced as LV, he was barely
recognizable." – Dumbledore (329)

29. Dumbledore believes that LV may have "unintentionally"
transferred some of his powers to Harry when he tried to kill him
(333)

30.  Lucius Malfoy owned or possessed LV's diary prior to the opening 
of CoS.  It was he who gave it to Ginny knowing / hoping that it 
would possess her and allow her to open the chamber and implicating 
her in future murders of muggleborns.  Malfoy hoped to discredit 
Arthur and ruin the chances of his muggle protection act.  (236)










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