[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldermort has a secret

[Cassandra Lee]

No: HPFGUIDX 167881

> va32h here:
> I do agree that the secret is not the horcrux, and that people who 
> call themselves Death Eaters would not find a horcrux particularly 
> distressing. They'd probably want one for themselves, actually. 

Jen: 
There's evidence in the graveyard that LV's supporters know
specifics about his quest for immortality: 'And then I ask myself,
but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They,
who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against
moral death?' (GOF, chap. 33, p. 648, Am ed.) It's implied the DE's
know what specific steps LV took or it might be worded more vaguely
like, 'they who knew I took steps.' The problem is Dumbledore
states in the 'Horcrux' chapter of HBP that the DE's did *not*
know Voldemort was referring to Horcruxes when he mentioned
going 'further than anybody' in his quest for immortality.


Cassandra:
  I do not recall exactly what happened in the graveyard, (and I do not have the book with me at the moment) but didn't LV say that the grave was that of his father's while he was giving his speech to the DE's? If so, wouldn't they know that 'Riddle' was not a wizarding family name? Especially since they are all so connected? I believe that LV's secret is that he is keeping his half blood geneology from the DE's, but I just can't imagine them being there in a muggle cementary and not putting the two and two together? 
                Cassandra