Is Voldemort a virgin?

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And any other Harry Potter mysteries!

Can anyone answer mine?
Is Voldemort a virgin?
What happened to Rodolphus Lestrange?
Why do some spells take weeks and hours of homework to learn, yet Harry can imperious people by just saying it?

Anyone else? I've got more, can't think just now. Just finished re-reading!

the two-way mirror.

Harry is dim. He also vowed never to use it when he first got it, so probably forgot about it until Sirius died.

Harry is not the brightest boy - he is brave and stupid. The book repeats this statement a lot

How did Wormtail end up as a Death Eater? We know Voldemort had loads of followers, but only branded his most intimate circle with the Mark. How did Wormtail, stupid, cowardly, self absorbed, weak Wormtail, end up being trusted enough to be branded?

I'm re-reading 'The Chamber of Secrets' and there's a reference to Ron polishing a shield which had been awarded to Tom Riddle for services to the school. Anyone else wonder why the school held onto it when Tom Riddle subsequently became Voldemort?

Probably cos at the time it was never disproved that aragog was not the monster that was killing everyone. Therefore Tom riddle had done a "good" thing as it were

Even so, it would be like Hitler's old school displaying a trophy he won for art.

I don't know why but I got the sense that for a long time nobody knew who Voldemort really was. Dumbledore worked it out but no one else did? He could have removed the shield, I suppose, but maybe these things have got a magic thing on, too so can only be removed if approved by the school equivalent of the Wizengamot?

PS fair enough, 001, I had forgotten that bit.

People don't generally know that Tom Riddle is Voldemort.

^^ andwering tayto

I think Wormtail was just a "normal" death eater, but then showed his loyalty later on when he looked after Voldemort (through fear more than anthing)

I'm presuming the DEs had to prove themselves in some sort of way? Wormtail did it by revealing the location of the Potters.

Any teachers here? How on earth did Snape, newly graduated himself and known Death Eater, control a classroom full of Gryffindors when he started teaching? Especially when he'd been in school with some of them.

Never mind the spying, that seems like a gargantuan task...

They said something about Wormtail in the films, he always used to look up to the big boys and Voldemort was the biggest of the lot. Something like that. They said it used to be James, Sirius and Remus. May have been the book, can't remember now.

Known death eater but known to whom, exactly? It wasn't necessarily public knowledge.

They didn't even call Voldemort by name he was he who must not be named, how they could out him as Tom Riddle, I don't know.

Dumbledore says that not many people knew Voldemort used to be known as Tom Riddle. He disappeared for years, the reappeared as Voldemort.

I wonder if Hagrid knew? He never mentions the fact he was at school with, and framed by, the bloke who turned out to be the most evil wizard. But you'd have thought Dumbledore would have explained it after his return from Azkaban.

That should have been "said" rather than "says". But Dumbledore is still the source of utter wisdom in my world.

• As regards teachers being married, Neville marries Hannah Abbott and is Professor of Herbology. She runs the Leaky Cauldron so he either lives at Hogwarts during the week and visits London at the weekend or he Floo Powders home each night -

Nooooo Neville was supposed to end up with Luna!

I never want this thread to end! I think voldy wouldn't be a virgin I think he wouldn't have been having a healthy sexual relationship though. When he was younger I feel he would have used it to get information flattering people getting them to open up.

I hate in GOF the film when dumbledore asks harry if he put his name in the goblet of fire couldn't have been more different from the book .

Luna Loveood ends up marrying Rolf Scamander (grandson of Newt!) and they had two kids Lorcan and Lysander :)

Cibatta - worry not! Luna ends up with the (great?) grandson of Newt Scamander, and they travel the world looking for various magical creatures, then have twin boys

I love their names , couldn't have picked better ones for Luna's family. It is so sad but also powerful that The longbottoms never recovered.

How do you know all this extra info!??

I always thought Tom Riddle at Hogwarts was gay - you see him in the film pretty much seducing Slughorn for instance, and I can see him liking power over the other boys in his circle. Or maybe bi, I don't know, then he can have power over everyone.

Imagines house elves cleaning up penis beakers throughout the castle

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I think Tom Riddle was very good at seducing anyone he needed to for information, but as a power play rather than a sexual inclination.

crazypetlady I hate that scene too. So unrealistic. Just watched it again this weekend as DS wanted to watch it and I think it's my least favourite. It jumps around so much and leaves so much out. Micheal Gambon has said he didn't read the books though. And gave Dumbledore an (apparently) Irish accent (sounded more Cornish to me). It was a mistake to not read the books, maybe he could have given a better portrayal. McKellen would have been much better!

Another bugbear is why was Beaubatons a girls school and Durmstrang a boys school? They weren't in the books. That really pisses me off. And the way the Beauxbatons flounce up the great hall, stop, waves their hands out and go "aaahhh" in a simpering voice. Hate it!