Thomas Marvolo Riddle

by The Lime-Wielding Ninja

What would have happened, when he was choosing a new name for himself, if Tom Riddle's full name was Thomas Marvolo Riddle? What would those three extra letters do to the name so many wizards and witches fear? T for politics. I don't own. Two-shot. DONE!

1. Chapter 1

Thomas Marvolo Riddle

Thomas Marvolo Riddle.
There had to be a better name for me. Thomas was such a boring name, and no-one could ever fear it. Anagrams were a good solution. Or so I thought. A piece of parchment sat in front of me, the letters in my ugly name crossed out time and time again. I had decided to take seven letters from my name to make the words "I AM LORD". The other twelve letters, however, seemed to bring horrific results.

I AM LORD:

LADROVESMOTH

DOVMOTSHALER

HAVOLDSEMORT

VOSLADEMORTH

SHOOTMERVALD

DEATH ROMSLOV

Hmmm...That was an interesting name. It had promise. It sounded Russian. Some of the best Dark wizards were Russian, like Joseph Stalin. But I couldn't see myself as a Lord Death Dromslov. Maybe if I switched the first two words...Hm, that looked better. I sectioned off a small portion of the page and labelled it Maybes.
The list seemed to go on forever. Nothing seemed quite right.

TROSHEMVLAD

ROTVESHDALM

MOOSE TLADRV

MOTHER VOSLAD

MOSHE TORVALD

A Dark Jewish Viking Lord. I put it under the Maybes.

OOEATHSLDMRV

No-one can even pronounce that! What was I thinking?

VLADMER TOSH

...What??

DELTA SHMOROV

...I put it in the Maybes pile

HORST EMO VLAD

How messed up would that be? I'm not being sarcastic, that would be the most stupid Dark Lord name ever.

Eventually, I had ten in the Maybes. They were:

1) DEATH ROMSLOV

2) MOSHE TORVALD

3) VALTHOR SMODE

4) DELTA SHMOROV

5) VOSLADEMORTH

6) SHAVODOLMERT

7) SHAVOLDOMERT

8) RADHOV MOSTEL

9) VOLDEMORTHAS

10) SLADEVOTHROM

It finally came down to the process of elimination. I had never seen the point of bloody Divination (perfect waste of money for the school to keep it up), so I couldn't look into the future to see which one I chose. And I couldn't ask my dorm mates to tell me which name was more intimidating. They would ask awkward questions that I would have to answer, and then they would know too much – most of them would know if I lied. No, the choosing of this name had to be entirely secret, subtle. Now I had to find the advantages of each name...

A/N: There will be a poll on my profile. You get to vote which name Thomas chooses. So please vote. PLEASE! Oh, and reviews are nice.

My mother helped me with the anagrams. I decided to give her credit, whether she wants it or not.

I've seen other fics about how Riddle comes up with his name, and I decided to find out if I could write one.