Same. The part about disappearing in Albania is from canon-Quirrell’s backstory—that’s where he ran into Voldemort’s wandering ghost, so it’s interesting that in MoR he supposedly went there before the war. The rest of the background recounted by Bones and by Quirrell himself don’t really ring a bell with me, the closest thing I can think of is him needing “reconciliation” with the Lady of the House being reminiscent of Sirius Black and his spat with his family, but Sirius already exists in MoR and had a different history.
It might be possible that in MoR the house of Gaunt (the one canon!Voldemort is from) did not fall into poverty and retained their household and Wizengamot influence? If the general ‘powering up’ of characters can go that far back it would be plausible. And now that I think of it, Quirrell initiated talk about witch-on-Muggle magical seduction during the SPHEW arc, which could suggest that that part of his family background was carried over from canon.
(One of the things that annoy me about HPMoR is that when I can’t quickly figure out what a certain passage might be hinting to, I have to assign a frustratingly high probability to the event that it’s simply a reference/homage/in-joke to one of the myriad HP fanfictions.)
My concern is largely that Bones seems to be hinting that Quirrelmort is someone else, who was believed to be dead, someone who was thought to be a powerful enemy of Voldemort who went missing, which meshes with his spiel to Hermione. Presumably the person Bones thinks he is isn’t Quirrel, since he’s publicly known to be that person. Who on Earth is she referring to?
Thomas Marvolo Gaunt-Riddle, hero of wizarding Britain? Though since Dumbledore knows that Tom Riddle is Voldemort that seems like quite the narrow escape; his game would be up if Bones and Dumbledore talked openly to each other.
I didn’t foresee this being a plausible interpretation, and have just now edited the birthdate to 1927 to avoid further confusion. It was intended as a bit of an, “Oh no, is she about to identify Voldemort?” moment, to be contradicted soon after by the Gaunts not exactly being on the Wizengamot or having a patroness grandmother. But as it’s plausible-to-the-reader that the Gaunts are different in this fic, I feel like I need to do something to cut down plausible misunderstandings I didn’t foresee. (I’ve also edited Ch. 53, fyi.)
Wait, that doesn’t work, for Voldemort being a known parselmouth to allow Hagrid a retrial after discovering the charm on the Sorting Hat Tom Riddle and Voldemort have to be known to be the same person.
EDIT: Eliezer jossed heroic Riddle in the mean time anyway.
Remember, his spiel to Hermione happened after Bones fingered him as the dead hero. It’s possible that he decided to just jump into the persona with both feet.
Same. The part about disappearing in Albania is from canon-Quirrell’s backstory—that’s where he ran into Voldemort’s wandering ghost, so it’s interesting that in MoR he supposedly went there before the war. The rest of the background recounted by Bones and by Quirrell himself don’t really ring a bell with me, the closest thing I can think of is him needing “reconciliation” with the Lady of the House being reminiscent of Sirius Black and his spat with his family, but Sirius already exists in MoR and had a different history.
It might be possible that in MoR the house of Gaunt (the one canon!Voldemort is from) did not fall into poverty and retained their household and Wizengamot influence? If the general ‘powering up’ of characters can go that far back it would be plausible. And now that I think of it, Quirrell initiated talk about witch-on-Muggle magical seduction during the SPHEW arc, which could suggest that that part of his family background was carried over from canon.
(One of the things that annoy me about HPMoR is that when I can’t quickly figure out what a certain passage might be hinting to, I have to assign a frustratingly high probability to the event that it’s simply a reference/homage/in-joke to one of the myriad HP fanfictions.)
My concern is largely that Bones seems to be hinting that Quirrelmort is someone else, who was believed to be dead, someone who was thought to be a powerful enemy of Voldemort who went missing, which meshes with his spiel to Hermione. Presumably the person Bones thinks he is isn’t Quirrel, since he’s publicly known to be that person. Who on Earth is she referring to?
Thomas Marvolo Gaunt-Riddle, hero of wizarding Britain? Though since Dumbledore knows that Tom Riddle is Voldemort that seems like quite the narrow escape; his game would be up if Bones and Dumbledore talked openly to each other.
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Wait, that doesn’t work, for Voldemort being a known parselmouth to allow Hagrid a retrial after discovering the charm on the Sorting Hat Tom Riddle and Voldemort have to be known to be the same person.
EDIT: Eliezer jossed heroic Riddle in the mean time anyway.
Remember, his spiel to Hermione happened after Bones fingered him as the dead hero. It’s possible that he decided to just jump into the persona with both feet.
My thoughts.