Very random HP thought

[conuly]

When Tom Riddle was an angsty adolescent he realized he could twist his name up into a ridiculous cool and badass anagram. He then proceeded to use his new anagram-name for the rest of his life. Fair enough, that's how Crescent Dragonwagon ended up with her name, and that may be the only thing those two have in common. (And what she says about it is "decisions you make early in your life look different as you mature.")

Around the same time Tom was playing around with letters, he came up with his grand plan of serial killing for fun and profit. This was sometime in the late 1940s, and when he "died" for the first time in 1981 he'd been at it for over 30 years. Thirty years, hewing slavishly to his childhood plans.

There is something intensely pathetic about that.