Riddle (was Re: Slytherin House / MALcolm BADdock / Eileen / Sorting Lily

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 185730

 
> Ceridwen:
> How would the Sorting Hat know?  In the only exchange we have 
between
> the hat and a student, ancestry isn't discussed.  That could be
> because the hat knows and it just doesn't matter in Harry's case,
> being as he has proper Wizarding antecedents, but it could just as
> well mean the hat doesn't know, it isn't part of its job to know.

Potioncat:
If one of the qualities for being sorted into Slytherin is blood 
status, then the Sorting Hat must have some way of knowing. It seems 
the Sorting Hat can play around with combinations of qualities, and 
doesn't use the word "pure" too closely.
> 
 
> Ceridwen:
> Unless they read the Nature's Nobility and knew there was no Riddle
> family listed.
Potioncat:
I don't think too many students do. Perhaps parents might. But I 
think the first impression would be that since the Hat placed him in 
Slytherin, his family connections must be good. And in the first few 
days, if the question came up, I think most would tend to think that 
perhaps the name Riddle was made up.
> 

> 
> Ceridwen:
> Until after the Sorting, only Dumbledore knew the extent of Tom's
> magical abilities.  Maybe he mentioned, but the way Dumbledore has
> been presented, I'm just as inclined to think he didn't say a word,
> preferring to let Tom make his own impression and hoping he would 
have
> changed his ways, at least as far as his Wizarding peers were 
concerned.

Potioncat:
I think his magical ability showed up pretty quickly once classes 
started.

 
> Ceridwen:
> Good question!  Why not?  All I can think of is, Tom was naturally a
> loner and didn't want to get that close to people.  He had natural
> victims at the orphanage that he could browbeat and intimidate.  
Maybe
> he liked to do that, or needed to.


Potioncat:

Good point.

Maybe his real reason for wanting to stay at Hogwarts over the summer 
had more to do with being at Hogwarts than with not being at the 
orphanage. He'd found the CoS by then I think. Maybe he wanted time 
in the restricted section.