Whatever happened to Head Boy Riddle?

[sunnyskywalker]

I've been bad about updating my journal. I could say I've been busy, but when aren't I? So I'm trying to be better about it, which in this case means realizing that hey, I wrote something about Harry Potter a while back which is just sitting on my hard drive because I forgot to do anything with it, and I can post that!

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[mary_j_59]

Voldemort as a foreigner and Tom's murderer - brilliant!

The problem is, all the theorizing of you sporkers makes so much more sense than the books do.

[sunnyskywalker]

I was trying to figure out what the average witch or wizard, who hasn't read the books, would know and guess. It was fun :D It's sad, because she had all the pieces there for an interesting backstory (not necessarily even this one, but something), and then just didn't take that last step. But hey, if it's there, if the possibility's there, no matter what she meant or didn't mean.

[oryx_leucoryx]

This might work. Even the Ollivander part. Fudge tells the Prime Minister Voldemort was 'a wizard who has eluded capture for almost 3 decades'. I'm not sure what date Fudge was counting from but the conversation took place in July 1996. 1966 was before the claimed dates for the first war. Maybe the original crime Voldemort was wanted for was the murder of Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Does this explain or further complicate what Dobby was or wasn't warning Harry about in COS? Did he or did he not know that Tom Riddle's diary was Voldemort's diary?

[oryx_leucoryx]

OTOH accepting this means that Voldemort managed to remain invisible for some 10 years after Tom's death. How does this work?

[sunnyskywalker]

Business travel took him back to the Continent? (Or even further abroad. Who knows.) It is a difficulty, but then, if Voldemort was "rising" for 30 years but was only super-scary for 11 (and even then possibly the worst was only around 2 years, based on known deaths), then a decade of radio silence before that sloooow rise at least fits the pattern, more or less. His followers knew he'd been doing some sort of immortality research; we don't know how much of this filtered out to the general public, but the idea that Voldemort could have traveled to far-off places learning all sorts of obscure Dark magic probably didn't sound so implausible.

Hm, good question about Dobby. He knew Tom was Voldemort by the end of CoS, but when did he find out? Ages ago, five minutes ago? I still can't figure out what his whole game was...

[oryx_leucoryx]

Maybe Dobby thought Voldemort stole Tom Riddle's diary and cursed it.