My open question is: how did Dumbledore know Voldemort was Tom Riddle? When he set himself up as dark Lord he presumably didn’t intend to leave a trace (he didn’t with his David Monroe persona). Did Dumbledore discover it in some plot? Did he conclude it because Voldemort openly use parseltongue somewhere? Was it in the prophecies?
Actually now I want to write a spin off short story about this. It always bothered me that hpmor Dumbledore didn’t really get any onscreen moments of awesome, I want to write a story set early in the Voldemort war where, for the first time, a relatively young inexperienced Voldemort has someone pull a successful plot against him by being proactive and he barely escapes (and rewrites some of his list with lessons).
Riddle having set up Hagrid, having asked Dumbledore for an introduction to Flamel, and his general demeanor etc, was more than sufficient info for Dumbledore. There were not two candidates for who Voldemort could possibly be.
After thinking about this a bit more, this says something about Voldemort’s perfect occlumancy in that while he could convincingly become a lot of different characters, there were still parts of his underlying person (CEV?) that genuinely were so unlike other people he couldn’t easily fake not having them.
(Which I guess is semi-confirmed in-story in that it says occlumancy and veritaserum enters the mind through specific surfaces that can be defended, but powerful methods like unbreakable vows/parseltongue/the mirror can’t be blocked with it)
My open question is: how did Dumbledore know Voldemort was Tom Riddle? When he set himself up as dark Lord he presumably didn’t intend to leave a trace (he didn’t with his David Monroe persona). Did Dumbledore discover it in some plot? Did he conclude it because Voldemort openly use parseltongue somewhere? Was it in the prophecies?
Actually now I want to write a spin off short story about this. It always bothered me that hpmor Dumbledore didn’t really get any onscreen moments of awesome, I want to write a story set early in the Voldemort war where, for the first time, a relatively young inexperienced Voldemort has someone pull a successful plot against him by being proactive and he barely escapes (and rewrites some of his list with lessons).
Eliezer’s reply, sent to me and copy-pasted in:
Riddle having set up Hagrid, having asked Dumbledore for an introduction to Flamel, and his general demeanor etc, was more than sufficient info for Dumbledore. There were not two candidates for who Voldemort could possibly be.
After thinking about this a bit more, this says something about Voldemort’s perfect occlumancy in that while he could convincingly become a lot of different characters, there were still parts of his underlying person (CEV?) that genuinely were so unlike other people he couldn’t easily fake not having them.
(Which I guess is semi-confirmed in-story in that it says occlumancy and veritaserum enters the mind through specific surfaces that can be defended, but powerful methods like unbreakable vows/parseltongue/the mirror can’t be blocked with it)