[HPforGrownups] Chapter Discussion: Goblet of Fire Ch 1: The Riddle House

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 191332

> Questions:
> 1. The first time you read the book, did you have a sense of the
> timeframe of the story, and therefore when "fifty years ago" would
> have been? Did you attribute any significance to that era?

June:
I understood the arrival of Voldemort and Wormtail to be the present
(being in the book 1995) so 50 years ago would be 1945.

> 2. What was your initial impression of the Riddle family?

June:
There really wasn't a chance to have my own impression as they were
described as stuck up in the beginning so that let you to think they
were stuck up.

> 3. What or who did you think had caused their deaths?

June:
Voldemort was my first and only thought. The reports said that there
wasn't a mark on them so it made sense that it would have been a
witch or wizard who did it and with Voldemort growing up in an
orphanage it stood to reason that he may not have been accepted by
his paternal family.

> 4. The Hanged Man is a pretty awesome pub name, considering the
> village is called Little Hangleton. What is your favorite pub name
> that comes up in the series?

June:
The Leaky Cauldron

> 5. Prior to the end of the chapter, did you think Frank Bryce
> would go on to be a more major character in the series?

June:
No, I thought that would be the last of him. Considering this is
Harry Potter, I should have known better, LOL.

> 6. Do you think that Voldemort tried any other spells on his
> family before killing them with the AK?

June:
No, I am sure he had carefully planned the killings.

> 7. Why do you think that Voldemort chose the house as his hideout?

June:
Because it was the home of his family and legally belonged to him.
It was sort of like Sirius using his family's house.

> 8. Recognizing that he has no say in what Voldemort calls him, do
> you think that Peter Pettigrew likes being called Wormtail instead
> of his original name?

June:
I doubt that bothers him because his friends at Hogwarts called him
that because of his animagi form.

> 9. In Voldemort's comment about Bertha being useless, did you
> think it meant that she was useless in questioning, or that after
> the questioning methods, she was rendered useless.

June:
Voldemort did say that he had gotten a lot of good information from
Bertha, so obviously the questioning wasn't usless. She was rendered
useless because of the use of the spell to break the origional spell
put on her by Barty Crouch Sr. (Voldemort even say's so) by the way,
does anyone else other than me think that Barty Crouch Sr owns part
of what happened to Bertha?

> 10. Do you think that Voldemort knew Frank Bryce was there all
> along?

June:
I do, in fact I think that Voldemort was the unknown owner who was
paying Frank to look after the place.