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This might be a really strange question but do any of you happen to know how Voldemort came to know about Hogwarts and to become a student?
The thing is, we found the letter at the Gaunt place, near Little Hangleton, right, and it suggests rather strongly that his mother was from there. But Hydra remembers that the young Tom Riddle, the one in the diary, told her he grew up in a Muggle orphanage in London. (Old London, that is, before all the Muggles were made to sleep and everything.)
So, someone must have been sent from the school to tell him he was really a wizard and he could come and be a student, mustn't they? Only if it was Professor Flitwick then I know he's been dead for a long time, and if it's Professor Slughorn, he doesn't want to be found, so maybe it was someone else? Or maybe they told one of you about finding him?
Because we think the next place to look is where he was raised, you see. So if any of you know anything about that, it might help.
The thing is, we found the letter at the Gaunt place, near Little Hangleton, right, and it suggests rather strongly that his mother was from there. But Hydra remembers that the young Tom Riddle, the one in the diary, told her he grew up in a Muggle orphanage in London. (Old London, that is, before all the Muggles were made to sleep and everything.)
So, someone must have been sent from the school to tell him he was really a wizard and he could come and be a student, mustn't they? Only if it was Professor Flitwick then I know he's been dead for a long time, and if it's Professor Slughorn, he doesn't want to be found, so maybe it was someone else? Or maybe they told one of you about finding him?
Because we think the next place to look is where he was raised, you see. So if any of you know anything about that, it might help.
